The Central Section

A refurbished 150 unit at Hall Green
Spring Road : Hall Green : Yardley Wood : Shirley : Whitlocks End : Wythall
Earlswood
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Spring Road
Click to see enlarged view of Spring Road Station Centro Notice - click to readInduction loop facility available at the ticket officeEasy access facilities - please confirm station facilities Network West Midlands - Public TransportClick to get bus connection informationRail connection information & train timesMap of the area showing the station(s)Click here to see Shirley News Feature Click to see enlarged view of Spring Road Station

Serving the Fox Hollies & Tyseley residential areas, offering convenient, rapid direct public transport to the City Centre. Formerly used by workers at the Joseph Lucas Shaftmoor Lane factory.A works car park was built over the line.

Hall Green
Click to see enlarged view of Hall Green Station Centro Notice - click to readInduction loop facility available at the ticket officeEasy access facilities - please confirm station facilities Network West Midlands - Public TransportClick to get bus connection informationRail connection information & train timesPark & Ride facilitiesMap of the area showing the station(s)
Click here to see Shirley News FeatureLinks to Hall Green for Sarehole Mill Museum website
Click to see enlarged view of Hall Green Station

Serving the residential suburb of Hall Green. Millstream Way, Sarehole Mill & the Tolkein Museum are nearby (around 15 mins walk). See refurbished waiting room or See steam train passing through

Yardley Wood
Click to see enlarged view of Yardey Wood Station Centro Notice - click to readInduction loop facility available at the ticket officeEasy access facilities - please confirm station facilities Network West Midlands - Public TransportClick to get bus connection informationRail connection information & train timesPark & Ride facilitiesMap of the area showing the station(s)Yardley Wood images Click to see enlarged view of Yardey Wood Station

Serving the Billesley, Warstock & Yardley Wood areas, offering convenient and rapid direct public transport to the City Centre
Trittiford Mill Pool - Now used by anglers the site is a a great nesting site for Grebe and Swans and Canada Geese. Millstream Way & River Cole.

Shirley
Click to enlarge image of Shirley Station Centro Notice - click to readInduction loop facility available at the ticket officeNetwork West Midlands - Public TransportClick to get bus connection informationRail connection information & train timesPark & Ride facilitiesMap of the area showing the station(s)Click here to see Shirley News Feature Click to enlarge image of Shirley Station

A residential area of Solihull on the edge of the
Warwickshire countryside.
Many trains from Birmingham terminate here.
See steam train passing through

Whitlocks End
Click to see enlarged view of Whitlocks End Station Centro Notice - click to readEasy access facilities - please confirm station facilities Network West Midlands - Public TransportRail connection information & train timesParking nearbyMap of the area showing the station(s)Click here to see  Whitlocks End photographs Click to see enlarged view of Whitlocks End Station
Serving rural Majors Green, Trueman's Heath, Tidbury Green & Dickens Heath. This station was originally a 'Halt' with minimum facilities. Refurbished & car park recently added & extended. See a view of station access ramps. See Tidbury Green golf course restaurant is open to non-golfers.
Wythall
Click to see enlarged view of Wythall Station Centro Notice - click to readInduction loop facility available at the ticket officeEasy access facilities - please confirm station facilities Network West Midlands - Public TransportClick to get bus connection informationRail connection information & train timesMap of the area showing the station(s)Click here to see Earlswood pictures Click to see enlarged view of Wythall Station

Formerly known as 'Grimes Hill & Wythall' and served rural communities such as Tidbury Green, Wythall and Hollywood.
The Wythall Bus & Transport Museum is some distance from the station.

Earlswood
Click to see enlarged view of Earlswood Station Centro Notice - click to readNetwork West Midlands - Public TransportRail connection information & train timesParking nearbyMap of the area showing the station(s)Click here to see Earlswood pictures Links to Warwickshire attractions Click to see enlarged view of Earlswood Station

Serving local rural communities at Earlswood, Tanners Green, Forshaw Heath & Fulford Heath. The station was originally called 'Earlswood Lakes', however it is a little further from the Lakes themselves than the next station - the smaller 'The Lakes'. Close to Clowes Woods.

For other sections of the line click appropriate heading
Birmingham - Snow Hill : Birmingham - Moor Street : Bordesley : Small Heath : Tyseley
The Lakes : Wood End : Danzey : Henley-in-Arden : Wootton Wawen : Wilmcote
Stratford-upon-Avon
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