Adderley Park railway station

Adderley Park railway station serves the Adderley Park area in the east of Birmingham, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by West Midlands Railway. It was threatened with closure in 2004, but has now been given a reprieve (although its train service was reduced from half-hourly to hourly each way). The station will become the main railway station for the proposed City of Birmingham Stadium, if that is constructed.

Adderley Park
Location
PlaceAdderley Park
Local authorityBirmingham
Coordinates52.483°N 1.855°W / 52.483; -1.855
Grid referenceSP098872
Operations
Station codeADD
Managed byWest Midlands Railway
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryE
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 59,240
2015/16 73,254
2016/17 82,404
2017/18 86,436
2018/19 0.116 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTETransport for West Midlands
Zone2
History
Key datesOpened 1 August 1860 (1 August 1860)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Adderley Park from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

It lies on Bordesley Green Road, part of the B4145.

History

Opened by the London and North Western Railway it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Regional Railways on behalf of the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive, for whom British Rail had been running the trains since the PTE's inception. Services on the Intercity Sector would frequently pass through on the West Coast Main Line as these services, run by the current operator, continue to do.

Service

Adderley Park is generally served by one train per hour in each direction. Trains generally run southbound to Birmingham International and northbound to Liverpool Lime Street.[1] Additional peak services to/from Coventry, Rugby, Northampton, Milton Keynes and London call here, but most of these pass through without stopping.

London Midland proposed the closure of the ticket office.[2] The request has been denied.[3]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Stechford   West Midlands Railway
Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford Line		   Birmingham New Street

Notes
  1. GB eNRT 2015-16, Table 68 (Network Rail)
  2. "Proposed changes to ticket office opening hours". Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
  3. "Rail ticket office cuts overruled". 17 September 2012 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
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References
  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • Station on navigable O.S. map
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