Tyseley railway station

Tyseley railway station serves the district of Tyseley in Birmingham, West Midlands, England. It is at the junction of the lines linking Birmingham with Leamington Spa and Stratford-upon-Avon.

Tyseley
Tyseley Station pictured in 2022 looking Southbound
General information
Location	Tyseley, City of Birmingham England
Coordinates	52°27′14″N 1°50′20″W / 52.454°N 1.839°W / 52.454; -1.839
Grid reference	SP109840
Managed by	West Midlands Trains
Transit authority	Transport for West Midlands
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	TYS
Fare zone	2
Classification	DfT category E
Key dates
1906	Opened by Great Western Railway
Passengers
2018/19	0.276 million
2019/20	0.295 million
2020/21	67,234
2021/22	0.124 million
2022/23	0.148 million
Location
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

West Midlands Trains manages the station and operates all of the trains that serve it.

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.

History

The Great Western Railway opened the station in 1906. It is on what was the GWR main line between London Paddington and Birkenhead Woodside. It was built with four platforms, but later British Railways took platforms 1 and 2 out of use.

Since the mid-1990s traffic on the line has increased. In 2007–08 Network Rail resignalled the line between Birmingham and Warwick, modified the track at Tyseley and restored platforms 1 and 2 to use.

Trains to and from Solihull are now able to use the new 60 mph (97 km/h) Tyseley North Junction. Two new junctions have been built at each end of the station, which allow non-stopping services between Solihull and Birmingham Snow Hill to cross at 60 mph.

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays, daytime service is generally three trains per hour.

Westbound:

• Three trains per hour (tph) run to Kidderminster via Birmingham Snow Hill and Stourbridge Junction, with 1tph continuing to Worcester Shrub Hill and/or Worcester Foregate Street via Droitwich Spa.^[1][2] One late evening service extends to Leamington Spa via Warwick.

Eastbound:

• 1tph run to Dorridge via Solihull.
• 2tph run to Whitlocks End via Shirley, with one extending to Stratford-upon-Avon.

On Sundays, there is an hourly service each way - eastbound to Stratford-upon-Avon via Shirley and westbound to Worcester Foregate Street.

Tyseley is no longer served by Chiltern Railways services as of the May 2023 timetable change.^[3][4] Services used to run southbound towards Banbury, High Wycombe and Marylebone.

References

1. "Train timetables and schedules | Tyseley". West Midlands Railway.
2. "Train times | Snow Hill Lines - Worcester to Birmingham Snow Hill, Solihull and Stratford upon Avon | 21 May until 9 December 2023". West Midlands Railway.
3. "Timetable - 21 May 2023 - December 2023: London to High Wycombe, Bicester, Oxford, Banbury, Leamington Spa, Stratford-upon-Avon and Birmingham". Chiltern Railways.
4. "Our timetables have changed". Chiltern Railways.

External links

• Train times and station information for Tyseley railway station from National Rail
• "Tyseley Station –1906 Present". Rail Around Birmingham & the West Midlands. 11 June 2013.
• "Tyseley Station". WarwickshireRailways.com.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Acocks Green		West Midlands Railway Stratford - Birmingham - Worcester via Kidderminster Snow Hill lines		Small Heath or Birmingham Moor Street
		West Midlands Railway Leamington to Worcester
Spring Road		West Midlands Railway Stratford - Whitlocks End - Birmingham - Worcester via Kidderminster		Small Heath
	Heritage railways
Birmingham Moor Street		Vintage Trains The Shakespeare Express July–September		Henley-in-Arden