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| Location | |
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| Place | Aston |
| Local authority | Birmingham |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Grid reference | SP087896 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | AST |
| Managed by | London Midland |
| Platforms in use | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail | |
| Annual rail passenger usage | |
| 2004/05 * | 0.162 million |
| 2005/06 * | 0.163 million |
| 2006/07 * | 0.168 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | West Midlands |
| Zone | 2 |
| History | |
| 1 November 1854 | Opened |
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | |
| * Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Aston from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. | |
Aston railway station serves the district of Aston in Birmingham, England. The pedestrian entrance is on Lichfield Road.
Passenger services are operated by London Midland using either Class 323 electrical multiple units on the Cross-City Line and the Walsall Line (the latter being part of the former Grand Junction Railway, opened in 1837), and Class 150 diesel multiple units on the Chase Line to Rugeley.
The station sits above the Lichfield Road (A5127), as the railway line here is on an embankment.
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History
Opened by the London and North Western Railway it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
When Sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Regional Railways on behalf of the West Midlands PTE, for whom British Rail had been running the trains since the PTE's inception.
Services
Aston receives regular services on both the Cross-City Line, from Lichfield Trent Valley to Redditch and the Walsall Line, from Birmingham New Street to Walsall. In the evenings, services for the Chase Line call Aston.
Six services operate on the Cross-City Line in each direction every hour which call Aston. Services to Birmingham New Street terminate at either Longbridge or Redditch, with four services an hour to the former and two to the latter. Northwards, there are three destinations on the Cross-City Line served by trains from Aston. Two of the six services run the full length of the line to terminate at Lichfield Trent Valley, two go to Lichfield City and the other two only venture as far as Four Oaks.
The Walsall line is served by fewer trains: there are two in each direction every hour, both of which call all stations between Birmingham New Street and Walsall. In the evenings, however, these are replaced by hourly services in each direction on the line which extends past Walsall, to Hednesford, calling all stations between Birmingham and Hednesford.
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| London Midland | ||||
| London Midland |
Nearby
The station serves:
References
- Butt, R.V.J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present, 1st Edition, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas, 1st, Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day, 1st, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
External links
- Train times and station information for Aston railway station from National Rail
- Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Aston railway station
- Warwickshire Railways page
- Station on navigable O.S. map
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