Tyseley railway station serves the district of Tyseley in

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, West Midlands,

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. It is at the junction of the lines linking Birmingham with and .

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manages the station and runs most of the trains that serve it.

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trains serve the station in the late evening only. The main station building is on a bridge over the tracks, on the Wharfedale Road (B4146). It is next to a railway depot and

Tyseley Locomotive Works Tyseley Locomotive Works, formerly the Birmingham Railway Museum, is the engineering arm of steam railtour promoter Vintage Trains based in Birmingham, England. It occupies part of the former Great Western Railway's Tyseley depot, built in ...

History

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 ...

opened the station in 1906. It is on what was the GWR main line between and . It was built with four platforms, but later

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four (British ra ...

ways took platforms 1 and 2 out of use. Since the mid-1990s traffic on the line has increased. In 2007–08

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resignalled the line between Birmingham and , modified the track at Tyseley and restored platforms 1 and 2 to use. Trains to and from are now able to use the new Tyseley North Junction. Two new junctions have been built at each end of the station, which allow non-stopping services between Solihull and to cross at 60 mph.

Services

Mondays to Saturdays, daytime service is generally two trains per hour outside peak hours. Northbound, there are two trains per hour to , continuing to , or

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. Southbound, there is one train per hour to via and one train per hour to via . On Sundays, there is an hourly service each way - southbound to via Shirley and northbound to .

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* * {{Railway Stations served by Chiltern Railways Railway stations in Birmingham, West Midlands DfT Category E stations Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1906 Railway stations served by Chiltern Railways Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains