Lichfield Trent Valley railway station

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Lichfield Trent Valley
Location
Place	Lichfield
Local authority	Lichfield
Operations
Managed by	Central Trains
Platforms in use	3
Annual entry/exit 04/05	0.187 million **
History
Key dates	Opened 1847
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
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West Coast Main Line

Principal stations (from south to north) London Euston Watford Junction Milton Keynes Central Rugby (for Birmingham Loop) Nuneaton Tamworth Lichfield Trent Valley Stafford Crewe then Manchester Piccadilly or Liverpool Lime Street Warrington Bank Quay Wigan North Western Preston Lancaster Oxenholme Lake District Penrith North Lakes Carlisle Lockerbie Carstairs Junction then Motherwell and Glasgow Central or Haymarketand Edinburgh Waverley (for East Coast Main Line)

Lichfield Trent Valley (Ordnance Survey grid reference SK136099) is a split-level railway station on the outskirts of the city of Lichfield in Staffordshire, England. It is one of two stations in Lichfield, the other being Lichfield City. The station is not particularly near the city, nor indeed the River Trent, but is an example of a station built primarily to serve a railway junction.

Its low-level platforms are located on Britain's busiest railway line, the Trent Valley Line section of the West Coast Main Line. Passenger services are run mostly by Virgin Trains, although only a handful of peak time and weekend services call at the station; there is also a limited service on weekdays run jointly by Silverlink and Central Trains, with the southern terminus being either London Euston or Northampton and the northern being either Crewe or Liverpool Lime Street. Central Trains also provide a rail replacement coach service between Stafford and Nuneaton, in lieu of the single car local service that used to operate on the route, but was withdrawn during the West Coast Modification Project and never reinstated (the rolling stock had been assigned to other duties).

A single platform at right-angles to the low-level station, accessible by a staircase from the latter, forms the high-level part of the station. This forms the northern terminus of the Birmingham Cross-City Line, and is served by two trains an hour, every day of the week.

Facilities are basic - the original station building burned down in the 1990s, and the ticket office is now a temporary wooden building.

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Lichfield Trent Valley railway station from National Rail
• Street map and aerial photo of Lichfield Trent Valley railway station from Multimap.com

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Tamworth		Virgin Trains West Coast Main Line		Stafford
		Virgin Trains West Coast Main Line		Stoke-on-Trent
Tamworth		Central Trains West Coast Main Line		Rugeley Trent Valley
Lichfield City		Central Trains Cross-City Line		Terminus