Yardley Wood railway station serves the

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area of

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

in the

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. Located 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, and all trains serving it, are operated by

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. The station platforms are accessed by ramps from Highfield Road, which crosses over the railway on a bridge just north of the station. The ticket office is located at road level, adjacent to the bridge.

History

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 ...

(GWR) on 1 July 1908, along with the line, and was originally known as ''Yardley Wood Platform''.... ''Platform'' being a GWR term for a station which was intermediate between a ''halt'' and a ''station'' in importance and facilities; the suffix was later dropped. Unlike the previous and following stations on the line ( and ) Yardley Wood was never provided with goods facilities. Most of the original station buildings are still intact. The station staff houses for the Station Master and Sub-Station Master, built on Highfield Road by GWR in 1907, were in use until around the late 1970s but were sold off as private houses shortly after this time. They still stand next to the station on Highfield Road

Services

During Monday to Saturday daytimes: * 3 trains per hour northbound to

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and Birmingham Snow Hill continuing to Stourbridge Junction, with some trains continuing onward to

Kidderminster Kidderminster is a large market and historic minster town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Birmingham and north of Worcester. Located north of the River Stour and east of the River Severn, in the 2011 census, it had ...

and

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. * 3 trains per hour southbound to , one of which continues to

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 ...

. On Sundays, there is an hourly train between Worcester, Birmingham, Shirley and Stratford-upon-Avon.

References

External links

Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Yardley Wood station
{{West Midlands railway stations, open Railway stations in Birmingham, West Midlands DfT Category E 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 Yardley Wood