Adderley Park railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Adderley Park
code = ADD


manager = London Midland
locale = Adderley Park
borough = Birmingham
pte = West Midlands
zone = 2
code = ADD
lowusage0405 = 26,543
lowusage0506 = 28,784
lowusage0607 = 19,507
platforms = 2
latitude = 52.483
longitude = -1.855
start = 1 August 1860

Adderley Park railway station serves the Adderley Park area in the east of Birmingham, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by London Midland. It was threatened with closure in 2004, but has now been given a reprieve (although its train service was reduced from half-hourly to hourly each way). The station will become the main railway station for the proposed City of Birmingham Stadium, if that is constructed.

It lies on Bordesley Green Road, part of the B4145.

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 on the Intercity Sector would frequently pass through on the West Coast Main Line as these services, run by the current operator, continue to do.

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References

*cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd
year=1995 ISBN 1 85260 508 1

*cite book|author=A. Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000 ISBN 0 906899 99 0

External links

* [http://warwickshirerailways.com/lms/adderleypark.htm Photographs of Adderley Park station] at warwickshirerailways.com
* [http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/Stations/adderley_park.php Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Adderley Park Station]