Chester Road railway station

Chester Road railway station is a railway station serving the Pype Hayes, Erdington, Wylde Green and Boldmere areas of north-east Birmingham, in the West Midlands county of England. It is situated on the Redditch-Birmingham New Street-Lichfield Cross-City Line.

Chester Road
Chester Road station, looking towards Erdington
Location
PlaceErdington
Local authorityBirmingham
Coordinates52.535°N 1.832°W / 52.535; -1.832
Grid referenceSP114931
Operations
Station codeCRD
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryE
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.816 million
2015/16 0.882 million
2016/17 0.909 million
2017/18 0.958 million
2018/19 1.048 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTETransport for West Midlands
Zone3
History
Original companyLondon and North Western Railway
Pre-groupingLondon and North Western Railway
Post-groupingLondon Midland and Scottish Railway
1 December 1863 (1863-12-01)Station opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Chester Road from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

It is a park and ride station, and has a free car park which was expanded in May 2006.

Pedestrian access to the station is via Green Lanes, near the junction with the Chester Road (A452). The station is above road level, as the line here is on an embankment.

History

The line from Aston to Sutton Coldfield was built by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) in 1862, although Chester Road station was not opened until 1 December 1863.[1][2] The LNWR became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway in 1921, as part of the Grouping, which was nationalised to become part of British Railways at the beginning of 1948. The station booking office and waiting room were rebuilt in 1991-1992 during the electrification of the line. The original LNWR station waiting room was dismantled, and moved to Market Bosworth, another former LNWR station, on the preserved Battlefield Line Railway.[3]

Service

The station is served by West Midlands Trains with local Network West Midlands branded "Cross-City" services, operated by Class 323 electrical multiple units. The station is served by six trains an hour in each direction, with an average journey time to Birmingham New Street of around 13 minutes.[4]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Wylde Green   West Midlands Railway
Cross-City Line		   Erdington

Access for disabled passengers

There are ramps providing step-free access to both platforms at Chester Road.

Nearby

The station serves:

References
  1. Jowett, Alan (1993). Jowett's Atlas of Railway Centres: of Great Britain showing their development from the earliest times up to and including the 1990s - Volume 1 (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 141. ISBN 1-8526-0420-4. OCLC 30919645.
  2. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 60. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  3. "Market Bosworth station". Archived from the original on 13 July 2009. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
  4. GB National Rail Timetable May 2016 Edition, Table 69 (Network Rail)
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