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Chester Road railway station
Railway station in the West Midlands, England
Railway station in the West Midlands, England
| Field | Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Chester Road | ||
| symbol_location | gb | ||
| symbol | rail | ||
| image | Chester Road railway station July 2023.jpg | ||
| caption | Chester Road station, looking northbound towards Wylde Green | ||
| borough | Wylde Green, Birmingham, | ||
| country | England | ||
| coordinates | |||
| grid_name | Grid reference | ||
| grid_position | |||
| platforms | 2 | ||
| code | CRD | ||
| zone | 3 | ||
| classification | DfT category E | ||
| manager | West Midlands Railway | ||
| transit_authority | Transport for West Midlands | ||
| original | London and North Western Railway | ||
| pregroup | London and North Western Railway | ||
| postgroup | London Midland and Scottish Railway | ||
| years | |||
| events | Station opened | ||
| <!--{{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2019/20 | passengers= 1.050 million}}-- |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2020/21 | passengers= 0.152 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2021/22 | passengers= 0.390 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2022/23 | passengers= 0.489 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2023/24 | passengers= 0.593 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2024/25 | passengers= 0.659 million}} |
| footnotes | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | ||
| mapframe | yes | ||
| mapframe-zoom | 13 |
|mapframe-zoom = 13 Chester Road railway station serves the areas of Pype Hayes, Erdington and Wylde Green in north-east Birmingham, West Midlands, England. It is sited on the Cross-City Line between / and , via . Pedestrian access to the station is via Green Lanes, near to the junction with the Chester Road (A452). It is above road level, as the line here is on an embankment.
History
The line from to was built by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) in 1862, although Chester Road station was not opened until 1 December 1863. The LNWR became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway in 1921, as part of the Grouping, which was nationalised to become part of British Railways at the beginning of 1948. The station booking office and waiting room were rebuilt in 1991-1992 during the electrification of the line. The original LNWR station waiting room was dismantled, and moved to , another former LNWR station, on the preserved Battlefield Line Railway.
In 2019, as part of the West Midlands Railway branding of the stations they manage, Chester Road was among the those given orange lampposts and railings. This received a lukewarm response from many locals, the local MP Andrew Mitchell and the leader of Sutton Coldfield Town Council, Simon Ward.
Facilities
Chester Road is a park and ride station; it has a free car park which was expanded to 164 spaces in May 2006. The ticket office is on platform 2, with two ticket machines on site. There is a shelter on both platforms with seating areas.
There are ramps providing step-free access to both platforms at Chester Road. It has been classified as a step-free access category B1 station. This means that there is step-free access to all platforms, but that this may include long or steep ramps.
Services
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The station is currently served by West Midlands Trains, with local Transport for West Midlands branded Cross-City services. These are operated using electric multiple units.
Off-peak services at Chester Road follow this general pattern, in trains per hour (tph):
- 4 tph northbound to , via ; departing from platform 1
- 2 tph continue to , via
- 4 tph southbound to , via and ; departing from platform 2.
- 2 tph continue to via , calling at all stations.
- 2 tph continue to , calling at all stations except ; 1tph does not call at .
On Sundays, there are 2 tph in each direction between Lichfield Trent Valley and Redditch.
The average journey time to Birmingham New Street is around 16 minutes.
References
References
- {{Jowett-Centres1
- Butt, R.V.J.. (1995). "The Directory of Railway Stations". Patrick Stephens Ltd.
- "Market Bosworth station".
- Horner, Nick. (26 March 2019). "Garish orange makeover of Cross City line stations slammed as being visually illiterate".
- "Chester Road (CRD)".
- "Chester Road station".
- "Class 730 fleet". West Midlands Railway.
- (18 May 2025). "Train timetables and schedules". West Midlands Railway.
- "Train Timetables and Schedules {{!}} Chester Road".
- "Cross City Line: Timetable from Sunday 18 May 2025".
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