Earlswood Station - A Solihull & West Midlands Gem!

Earlswood Station is on the Solihull, West Midlands / Stratford-on-Avon,Warwickshire border. It opened in 1908. Today the station is close to Earlswood Garden & Landscape Centre.


Where is Earlswood Station?

Earlswood Station is at Station Drive, Earlswood, Warwickshire, B94 5JS

 

In brief

The station opened as Earlswood Lakes in 1908, it was later renamed to Earlswood in 1974, despite being located close to Foreshaw Heath. The Lakes Station is closer to Earlswood village. Today the station is convenient for shoppers going to Earlswood Garden & Landscape Centre (it also has a café). Trains at Earlswood are hourly. It is on the Solihull, West Midlands border with the district of Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire.

Earlswood StationEarlswood Station (December 2017). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

Earlswood Station - details

This station was originally called Earlswood Lakes in 1908, later renamed to Earlswood in 1974, the next stop called The Lakes is a request stop, and is closer to the actual Earlswood Lakes.

Earlswood StationEarlswood Station (December 2017). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

London Midland managed this station until December 2017, when West Midlands Railway took over.

Earlswood StationEarlswood Station (December 2017). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

Not much facilities here, there is a car park, shelters, and raised platform sections for wheelchair users, but no ticket office or ticket machine (you can now buy your tickets in the West Midlands Railway app).

Earlswood StationEarlswood Station (December 2017). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

There is two platforms, platform 1 for trains towards Henley-in-Arden and Stratford-upon-Avon, while platform 2 for trains towards Shirley, Tyseley, Birmingham Moor Street / Snow Hill and onto the Worcester stations.

Earlswood StationEarlswood Station (December 2017). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

Trains are hourly in both directions seven days a week.

Earlswood StationEarlswood Station (December 2017). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

No footbridge at the station, just ramps to both platforms from Forshaw Heath Road, with this bridge view.

Earlswood StationEarlswood Station (December 2017). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

Station signs were eventually replaced a few years after West Midlands Railway took over.

Earlswood StationEarlswood Station (December 2017). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

The way out is via the ramps, past the trees.

Earlswood StationEarlswood Station (December 2017). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

Sit in the shelters to keep dry from rain or snow.

Earlswood StationEarlswood Station (December 2017). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

Trains

Getting off West Midlands Railway 172 338 at Earlswood, in late December 2017. Shortly after the London Midland franchise ended. This train continued onto Stratford-upon-Avon.

Earlswood StationEarlswood Station (December 2017). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

By the time you have come back from Earlswood Garden & Landscape Centre, around an hour later is the next West Midlands Railway service, in this case 172 343 to Stratford-upon-Avon.

Earlswood StationEarlswood Station (December 2017). Photography by Elliott Brown

 

West Midlands Railway 172 338 returns from Stratford-upon-Avon around an hour after it was last at Earlswood, to pick you up and take you back into Birmingham.

Earlswood StationEarlswood Station (December 2017). Photography by Elliott Brown

Project dates

19 Mar 2023 - On-going

Passions

History & heritage, Transport, Classic Architecture

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