STATIONS ALONG THE LINE : The Central Section - Shakespeare Line 'dot com ' the website for the 'The Shakespeare Line' - the Birmingham to Stratford-upon-Avon railway line - page updated 27/03/09

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The Central Section

You can browse through the detail on this page, or you can move directly to a station by clicking the name in the list immediately above.

KEY : for a page giving a key to the symbols used on this page under the station names - click here

Please Note : Whilst this is a text only page, it also gives station views accessible through the mixed text & graphics page. If you want to see the relevant view please click against the appropriate description (or View 1 , View 2)

Spring Road

Centro | Loop | EasyAxs | NWM | Bus Links | Area Map | Photographs

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. View 1 : View 2

Hall Green

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Serving the residential suburb of Hall Green. View 1 : View 2 : See steam train passing through

Millstream Way, Sarehole Mill & the Tolkein Museum are nearby.

To see refurbished waiting room - click here

Yardley Wood

Centro | Loop | EasyAxs | NWM | Bus Links | Parking | Area Map | Photographs

Serving the Billesley, Warstock & Yardley Wood areas, offering convenient and rapid direct public transport to the City Centre. View 1 : View 2

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

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A residential area of Solihull on the edge of the
Warwickshire countryside. View 1 : View 2 : See steam train passing through

Many trains from Birmingham terminate here.

Whitlocks End

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Serving rural Majors Green, Trueman's Heath, Tidbury Green & Dickens Heath. View 1 : View 2

This station was originally a 'Halt' with minimum facilities. Refurbished & car park recently added & extended. See a view of station access ramps - click to see

Tidbury Green golf course restaurant is open to non-golfers - click to see.

Wythall

Centro | Loop | EasyAxs | NWM | Bus Links | Area Map | Photographs

Formerly known as 'Grimes Hill & Wythall' and served rural communities such as Tidbury Green, Wythall and Hollywood. View 1 : View 2

The Wythall Bus & Transport Museum is some distance from the station.

Earlswood

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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. View 1 : View 2

For other sections of the line click appropriate heading:

  • Northern Section (Centro area) line shared with trains to Solihull and Leamington
    • Birmingham - Snow Hill
    • Birmingham - Moor Street
    • Bordesley
    • Small Heath
    • Tyseley
  • Southern Section
    • The Lakes
    • Wood End
    • Danzey
    • Henley-in-Arden
    • Wootton Wawen
    • Wilmcote
    • Stratford-upon-Avon

 

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