Landywood railway station is situated in the village of Landywood in Staffordshire,

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. As well as Landywood, the station also serves the adjacent villages of

Cheslyn Hay Cheslyn Hay is a former mining village and civil parish which is contiguous with Great Wyrley and Landywood in Staffordshire, England. It is situated within the South Staffordshire district some 3 miles south of Cannock, 7 miles north of Walsall ...

and

Great Wyrley Great Wyrley is a large village and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. It is coterminous with the villages of Landywood and Cheslyn Hay in the South Staffordshire district. It lies 5.5 miles north of Walsall, West Midlands. It had a po ...

(The former

Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay railway station Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay railway station served the villages of Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay in Staffordshire, England, between 1858 and 1965. History The station was opened by the South Staffordshire Railway (SSR) on 1 February 1858 and was ori ...

closed in the 1960s). The LNWR also operated an earlier halt at Landywood which closed on 1 January 1916. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by

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History

The first station on the site was opened in 1908 by the London and North Western Railway but closed after a short life in 1916. The present station opened in 1989, as part of the first stage of the reopening by British Rail of the

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from

Walsall Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre in the West Midlands County, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located north-west of Birmingham, east of Wolverhampton and from Lichfield. Walsall is th ...

Hednesford Hednesford (pronounced ) is a historic market town in the Cannock Chase district of Staffordshire, England. Cannock Chase is to the north, the town of Cannock to the south and Rugeley to the southwest.The population at the 2011 census was 1 ...

to passenger trains. The area was previously served by a station further north at Great Wyrley, but this was closed during the Beeching Axe of the 1960s. In 2010, the stations between Walsall and Stafford (including Landywood) were subject to a £1.6 million upgrade project. This included the installation of new lighting, CCTV, live train information boards, and new waiting shelters. From 2018, Great Wyrley & Cheslyn Hay Community Group will help maintain the station as part of West Midland Railway's station adoption scheme. In 2019 the Chase Line electrification works were completed and the first electric trains will run from 19 May. This was to coincide with a major timetable change introducing hourly services to London Euston via Birmingham International. London bound trains are run by the London Northwestern franchise. From May 2020, London services will run at peak times only, with the remainder terminating at Birmingham International or Coventry. This is unfortunately due to timetable issues along the line causing delays and cancellations.

Services

Typically, Monday to Saturday daytimes and peak times, Landywood is served by two trains per hour in each direction between

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and

Rugeley Trent Valley Rugeley Trent Valley is a railway station located on the outskirts of Rugeley in Staffordshire, England. It is one of two stations serving Rugeley, the other being Rugeley Town. It is on the eastern side of the town close to the Rugeley Trent ...

where connections to Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent and Crewe are available. On Sundays Landywood is served by 1 train per hour.GB eNRT 2015–16 Edition, Table 70 (Network Rail) Services are usually operated by Class 350 electric trains. Journey times are typically 14 minutes to Walsall and 38 minutes to Birmingham New Street. A range of onward travel options are available from nearby bus stops including buses to Cheslyn Hay, Cannock, Stafford, Wolverhampton, New Cross Hospital, Essington, Bloxwich, Walsall, Birmingham and the McArthurGlen Designer Outlet in Hawks Green. Nearby shopping precinct 'Quinton Court' offers a range of shops and eateries, in addition to Great Wyrley Library and Health Center.

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South Staffordshire District Railway stations in Staffordshire DfT Category F2 stations Former London and North Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1908 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1916 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1989 Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains 1908 establishments in England 1989 establishments in England {{WestMidlands-railstation-stub