Lichfield Trent Valley railway station

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Lichfield Trent Valley
Location
Place	Lichfield
Local authority	Lichfield
Coordinates	52°41′12″N 1°48′01″W / 52.68662, -1.80024Coordinates: 52°41′12″N 1°48′01″W / 52.68662, -1.80024
Grid reference	SK136099
Operations
Station code	LTV
Managed by	London Midland
Platforms in use	3
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	0.187 million
2005/06 *	0.221 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1847
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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 passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Lichfield Trent Valley from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Lichfield Trent Valley 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 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 by London Midland, with the southern terminus being either London Euston or Northampton and the northern being either Crewe or Liverpool Lime Street. London Midland 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between Stafford and Nuneaton, in lieu of the single car local service that used to operate on the route, but was withdrawn during the West Coast Modification Project and never reinstated (the rolling stock had been assigned to other duties).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 Cross-City Line, and is served by two trains an hour, every day of the week.

A view of Lichfield Trent Valley looking south on the West Coast Main Line on 21 March 2007.

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

The chord line between the low and high level lines, seen from platform 2

The route North of Lichfield on the high-level line, connected to the Southbound WCML by a single track chord, runs via Alrewas to Wychnor Junction, near Burton upon Trent. Primarily a freight route, this line is also utilised by Virgin Trains to move trains from Birmingham to Bombardier's maintenance depot at Central Rivers, near Burton. The route is sometimes used as a means of diverting trains when engineering takes place between Birmingham New Street and Tamworth.

[edit] External links

• Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Lichfield Trent Valley station