Yardley Wood railway station

Yardley Wood National Rail
Location
Place Yardley Wood
Local authority Birmingham
Grid reference SP099803
Operations
Station code YRD
Managed by West Midlands Trains
Number of platforms 2
DfT category E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Increase 0.363 million
2013/14 Increase 0.386 million
2014/15 Increase 0.397 million
2015/16 Increase 0.428 million
2016/17 Increase 0.449 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE Transport for West Midlands
Zone 3
History
Key dates Opened 1908 (1908)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Yardley Wood from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Yardley Wood railway station serves the Yardley Wood area of Birmingham in the West Midlands of England. Located on the North Warwickshire Line, the station, and all trains serving it, are operated by West Midlands Trains.

The station platforms are accessed by ramps from Highfield Road, which crosses over the railway on a bridge just north of the station. The ticket office is located at road level, adjacent to the bridge.[1]

History

The station was opened by the Great Western Railway (GWR) on 1 July 1908, along with the line, and was originally known as Yardley Wood Platform.... Platform being a GWR term for a station which was intermediate between a halt and a station in importance and facilities;[2][3] the suffix was later dropped. Unlike the previous and following stations on the line (Shirley and Hall Green) Yardley Wood was never provided with goods facilities.[1] Most of the original station buildings are still intact.[2]

The station staff houses for the Station Master and Sub-Station Master, built on Highfield Road by GWR in 1907, were in use until around the late 1970's but were sold off as private houses shortly after this time. They still stand next to the station on Highfield Road

Services

During Monday to Saturday daytimes:

On Sundays, there is an hourly train between Worcester, Birmingham, Shirley and Stratford-upon-Avon.[4]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Hall Green   West Midlands Railway
North Warwickshire Line		   Shirley

References

  1. 1 2 "Yardley Wood Platform". Warwickshire Railways. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Yardley Wood". Rail around Birmingham & the West Midlands. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "Spring Road Platform". Warwickshire Railways. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  4. ↑ Table 71 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Coordinates: 52°25′19″N 1°51′14″W / 52.422°N 1.854°W / 52.422; -1.854

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