Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway railway station

Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway is a parkway railway station on the northern outskirts of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. It is on the North Warwickshire Line, next to the A46 road. The station is served by West Midlands Trains and Chiltern Railways.

Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway
Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway in 2020
Location
Place	Bishopton, Stratford
Local authority	Stratford-on-Avon
Grid reference	SP183566
Operations
Station code	STY
Managed by	West Midlands Trains
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	63,488
2015/16	83,228
2016/17	81,043
2017/18	92,782
2018/19	107,638
History
Key dates	Opened 19 May 2013 (19 May 2013)
National Rail – UK railway stations
Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station uses the Park and Ride facilities at Bishopton, whose car park has spaces for 725 vehicles, thus saving passengers from driving into central Stratford to get the train from the main Stratford-upon-Avon railway station. It has two platforms on the double-track line. Each platform is 502 feet (153 m) long with another 16-foot (5 m) stopping allowance to accommodate trains with up to six 80-foot (24.5 m) coaches. The platforms are linked by a DDA-compliant footbridge with ramps.[1]

History

The station was opened on 19 May 2013.[2][3][4] It had been planned to open in December 2013,[5] but was completed seven months ahead of schedule.[6] Construction work started on 17 October 2012.[4]

The station was projected to cost £8.8 million. In July 2011 the Department for Transport agreed to contribute £5 million from its Local Sustainable Transport Fund.[7] In September 2011 Warwickshire County Council agreed to contribute £1.8 million.[8] In January 2012 Warwickshire County Council announced that Mott MacDonald had been appointed to produce the GRIP 4 outline design of the parkway station by early summer 2012.[9]

Services

North Warwickshire Line
Birmingham–Worcester line Birmingham Snow Hill Snow Hill Tunnel Rugby–Birmingham– Stafford Line Birmingham Moor Street Bordesley A4540 road Grand Union Canal Camp Hill Line Small Heath Grand Union Canal Tyseley TMD Tyseley Tyseley Junction Chiltern Main Line Spring Road Hall Green Yardley Wood Shirley Stratford Canal Whitlocks End Wythall Earlswood limit of TfWM area The Lakes M42 motorway Wood End Danzey to Chiltern Main Line Henley-in-Arden Wootton Wawen River Alne Alcester–Hatton branch line Edstone Aqueduct Bearley Junction Leamington–Stratford line Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway Stratford Canal Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway Honeybourne Line to Honeybourne

West Midlands Trains run services southbound to Stratford-upon-Avon, and northbound to Birmingham Snow Hill, one running via Whitlocks End and the other via Solihull. Most of these services continue to Stourbridge Junction on weekdays, and Worcester Foregate Street or Great Malvern on weekends. There are no services to Birmingham Snow Hill via Solihull on Sundays, and on weekdays at night only the last service of the day stops at Solihull, with all other services running via Whitlocks End.

Chiltern Railways run services to London Marylebone via Leamington Spa, although no services continue to London Marylebone outside off-peak hours; instead, they terminate at Warwick or Banbury. There no services which continue to London Marylebone on weekends.

References

1. "Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway". Warwickshire County Council.
2. "West Midlands Rail vision: Rail Development Strategy" (PDF). Network West Midlands. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016.
3. "Stratford Parkway Station Executive Summary" (PDF). Warwickshire County Council. January 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2012.
4. "Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway station building work starts". BBC News. 17 October 2012.
5. "Stratford Parkway Station". Warwickshire County Council. Archived from the original on 1 February 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
6. "Stratford Parkway set to open seven months early". Rail.co. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013.
7. "£5 million grant for new Stratford Rail Station". Coventry Telegraph. Trinity Mirror. Archived from the original on 23 July 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
8. "Parkway station on track after new funding". Stratford Observer. Bullivant Media. Archived from the original on 30 May 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
9. "Stratford Parkway agreement reached". Warwickshire County Council. 25 June 2012.

External links

• Train times and station information for Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Wilmcote		West Midlands Railway North Warwickshire Line		Stratford-upon-Avon
Wilmcote		Chiltern Railways Leamington – Stratford upon Avon		Stratford-upon-Avon