Where is Tyseley Station?
Tyseley Station is on Wharfdale Road, Tyseley, Birmingham, B11 2AD
In brief
An Edwardian railway station in Tyseley where the Shakespeare Line and Chiltern Mainline merge, and heads towards Birmingham Snow Hill. First opened in 1906. Close to the Tyseley Locomotive Works (formerly the Birmingham Railway Museum).
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Tyseley Station from Wharfdale Road, skyline view. Photography by Elliott Brown
Tyseley Station - history and details
The Great Western Railway opened the station in 1906, on what was their mainline from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside.
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Tyseley Station (September 2011). Photography by Elliott Brown
The station was built with four platforms, but British Rail took two platforms out of use, but they were reopened in the late 2000s.
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Tyseley Station (September 2011). Photography by Elliott Brown
There is a ticket office, it used to be open years ago, but it is now closed, but there is now a ticket machine on the platforms below.
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Tyseley Station (September 2011). Photography by Elliott Brown
Platforms 1 and 2 are now for stopping trains between Birmingham Snow Hill and Dorridge, at least one an hour in each direction.
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Tyseley Station (December 2013). Photography by Elliott Brown
During the week there is more frequent trains stopping at platforms 3 and 4 on the Snow Hill lines between Stratford-upon-Avon, Whitlocks End, Birmingham Snow Hill towards Worcester Foregate Street.
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Tyseley Station (December 2013). Photography by Elliott Brown
The station buildings on platforms 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all out of use, but volunteers now keep the station looking nice with planting flowers.
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Tyseley Station (December 2013). Photography by Elliott Brown
Trains
London Midland 172 344 at platform 4 during December 2013.
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Tyseley Station (December 2013). Photography by Elliott Brown
West Midlands Railway 172 342 stops at platform 4 at Tyseley Station during September 2018, one of the first times seeing the new orange and purple WMR livery.
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Tyseley Station (September 2018). Photography by Elliott Brown