Wood End is a railway station 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 ...

serving the village of Wood End in

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, England. Situated on the

Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon (), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-we ...

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route, 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 ''Wood End Platform'', the suffix was later dropped. The station is located in a deep cutting. Immediately to the south of the station is Wood End tunnel, which is long. In 2014, the footbridge over the line was removed and new stairs were installed leading to both platforms from the main road.

Services

The service in each direction between Kidderminster and Stratford via Birmingham runs hourly on Mondays to Saturdays. Until the May 2023 timetable change the station 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 at www.warwickshirerailways.comRail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Wood End 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