Alvechurch railway station

Alvechurch
Location
Place	Alvechurch
Local authority	Bromsgrove
Operations
Station code	ALV
Managed by	London Midland
Number of platforms	1
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	76,963
2005/06 *	94,044
2006/07 *	94,100
2007/08 *	94,129
2008/09 *	135,048
History
Opened 1 November 1859 (1 November 1859)
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 estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Alvechurch from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Alvechurch railway station serves the village of Alvechurch in Worcestershire, England. It is situated on the Cross-City Line 18 km (11¼ miles) south west of Birmingham New Street. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by London Midland. The station itself is an unstaffed station with a bus-stop style shelter and only one platform.

Services

Trains operate every 30 minutes all day, every day, between Redditch and Birmingham New Street, then continuing to Four Oaks and Lichfield.

History

Opened by the Midland Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The establishment of Passenger Transport Executives saw British Railways run trains on behalf of the West Midlands PTE, a process which continued when Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s. The station was operated by the Regional Railways sector on behalf of the West Midlands PTE. until the Privatisation of British Railways.

As a PTE station it has trains run under the marketing labels of Centro and Network West Midlands.

When the Cross-city line was upgraded and electrified in 1993 the platform at Alvechurch was resited slightly to the north. The result of this is that as soon as the old platform ends the new one begins. The former station building is now in private ownership.

Future

Network Rail plans to add a passing loop on this single-track section of the Cross-City Line, and this includes building a second platform at Alvechurch station. The proposal may also include a footbridge and lifts to reach the new platform. If it goes ahead, the scheme should be completed by summer 2014.

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 

External links

• Train times and station information for Alvechurch railway station from National Rail
• Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Alvechurch railway station
• Station on navigable O.S. map

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Barnt Green		London Midland Cross-City Line		Redditch
Historical railways
Barnt Green Line and station open		Midland Railway Gloucester Loop Line		Redditch Line and station open