Danzey is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

which serves the small village of

Danzey Green Danzey Green, sometimes known locally as simply Danzey, is a small rural hamlet in Warwickshire, England. It is within the civil parish of Tanworth-in-Arden, the village of which is around one mile to the north-west. Just east of Danzey is the Ri ...

, and the larger but slightly more distant village of

Tanworth-in-Arden Tanworth-in-Arden (; often abbreviated to Tanworth) is a small village and civil parish in the county of Warwickshire, England. It is southeast of Birmingham and northeast of Redditch, and is administered by Stratford-on-Avon District Council. ...

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon an ...

, England. Situated on the

North Warwickshire Line The North Warwickshire Line (also known as the Shakespeare Line) is a suburban railway line in the West Midlands region of the United Kingdom. It runs from Birmingham to Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, now the southern terminus of the line, al ...

, the station was opened by the

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

in 1908 along with the line, and was originally known as ''Danzey for Tanworth''. It is a few minutes walk from Danzey Green, and around one mile from Tanworth-in-Arden.

Services

The service in each direction between Kidderminster and Stratford via Birmingham runs hourly. Until the May 2023 timetable change Danzey was a

request stop In public transport, a request stop, flag stop, or whistle stop is a stop or station at which buses or trains, respectively, stop only on request; that is, only if there are passengers or freight to be picked up or dropped off. In this way, st ...

, meaning passengers wishing to board a train here needed to signal to the driver their intent to board; those wishing to alight needing to inform the train conductor. There is no Sunday service.

References

External links

Historical photographs of Danzey station from www.warwickshirerailways.comRail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Danzey station
Railway stations in Warwickshire DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1908 Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains 1908 establishments in England Tanworth-in-Arden {{WestMidlands-railstation-stub