Solihull railway station

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Coordinates: 52°24′53″N, 1°47′20″W

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Solihull
Location
Place	Solihull
Local authority	Solihull
Operations
Station code	SOL
Managed by	London Midland
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2005/06 *	0.582 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Midlands
Zone	4
History
Key dates	Opened 1852
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 passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Solihull from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Solihull railway station serves the town of Solihull in the West Midlands of England. The station is served by London Midland and Chiltern Railways. In summertime, Solihull is usually served by hourly CrossCountry services towards Reading and Birmingham New Street. It also replaces stops at Birmingham International during engineering work between Birmingham New Street and Coventry. Solihull used to have a regular Virgin Trains service to Manchester Piccadilly, Blackpool North and Portsmouth Harbour until 2004, when all services were reverted to going through Coventry.

The station booking office is located underneath the trackbed in a subway, where footsteps lead up to the island platform. Services are operated by Chiltern Railways to London Marylebone via High Wycombe, London Midland to Dorridge, extending to Leamington Spa at peak times. The vast majority of Chiltern Railways services terminate at Birmingham Snow Hill, with extensions to Kidderminster at peak times. London Midland operate services to Great Malvern via Stourbridge Junction on a 20-minute frequency.

Solihull station has undergone significant rationalisation in recent decades, with a goods yard being removed, an island platform and a signal box. With the removal of an island platform, Solihull has since lost its platform buildings, being reduced to a single platform building. It has lost much of its GWR features. Platform canopies were constructed once again in 2007-08, but not to the former GWR scale.

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Solihull railway station from National Rail
• Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Solihull station

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