Tyseley | |
Symbol Location: | gb |
Symbol: | rail |
Borough: | Tyseley, City of Birmingham |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 52.454°N -1.839°W |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Manager: | West Midlands Trains |
Platforms: | 4 |
Code: | TYS |
Zone: | 2 |
Classification: | DfT category E |
Transit Authority: | Transport for West Midlands |
Years: | 1906 |
Events: | Opened by Great Western Railway |
Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
Tyseley railway station serves the district of Tyseley in Birmingham, West Midlands, England. It is at the junction of the lines linking Birmingham with and .
West Midlands Trains manages the station and operates all of the trains that serve it.
The main station building is on a bridge over the tracks, on the Wharfedale Road (B4146). It is next to a railway depot and Tyseley Locomotive Works.
The Great Western Railway opened the station in 1906. It is on what was the GWR main line between and . It was built with four platforms, but later British Railways took platforms 1 and 2 out of use.
Since the mid-1990s traffic on the line has increased. In 2007–08 Network Rail resignalled the line between Birmingham and, modified the track at Tyseley and restored platforms 1 and 2 to use.
Trains to and from are now able to use the new 60mph Tyseley North Junction. Two new junctions have been built at each end of the station, which allow non-stopping services between Solihull and to cross at 60 mph.
On Mondays to Saturdays, daytime service is generally three trains per hour.
Westbound:
Eastbound:
On Sundays, there is an hourly service each way - eastbound to Stratford-upon-Avon via Shirley and westbound to Worcester Foregate Street.
Tyseley is no longer served by Chiltern Railways services as of the May 2023 timetable change.[3] [4] Services used to run southbound towards, and .