Acocks Green railway station

Acocks Green railway station (previously known as Acocks Green & South Yardley) serves the Acocks Green area of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. Pre-nationalisation a GWR station on their main line from London (Paddington) to Birkenhead (Woodside) the station is now served by West Midlands Railway, who manage the station, and by Chiltern Railways.

Acocks Green
Location
PlaceAcocks Green
Local authorityCity of Birmingham
Coordinates52.449°N 1.818°W / 52.449; -1.818
Grid referenceSP123835
Operations
Station codeACG
Managed byWest Midlands Trains
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryE
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.427 million
2015/16 0.450 million
2016/17 0.468 million
2017/18 0.498 million
2018/19 0.542 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTETransport for West Midlands
Zone3
History
1 October 1852Station opens as Acocks Green
1878Station renamed Acocks Green and South Yardley
6 May 1968Station renamed Acocks Green
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Acocks Green from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

Acocks Green was built to connect the local community to the industrialised areas of the city. Although the station never had a goods yard, Acocks Green boasted 4 platforms, and a loop line on the northbound slow line. British Rail rationalisation led to the removal of the slow lines (and loop) in both directions and the demolition of one island platform to allow for the construction of the current car park.

Services

The station is served by three trains per hour in each direction between Birmingham Snow Hill and Dorridge Mondays to Saturdays and one per hour each way on Sundays. The Birmingham trains continue to either Stourbridge Junction, Kidderminster or Worcester Foregate Street. One Dorridge service per hour continues to Stratford-upon-Avon, in peak hours some services extend to Leamington Spa.[1]

The remaining platforms
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Tyseley   Chiltern Railways
London - Birmingham		   Olton
Tyseley   West Midlands Railway
Leamington-Worcester		   Olton

References
  1. Table 71 National Rail timetable, May 2016
  • 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.
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