The Hawthorns station

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The Hawthorns
Location
Place West Bromwich
Local authority Sandwell
Coordinates 52°30′18″N 1°57′50″W / 52.505, -1.964Coordinates: 52°30′18″N 1°57′50″W / 52.505, -1.964
Operations
Managed by London Midland
Platforms in use 2 (train) + 2 (metro)
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 * 97,942
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE West Midlands
Zone 2
History
1995 Opened
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at The Hawthorns from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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The Hawthorns station is a railway station and tram stop, opened in 1995 in Sandwell(very near the border with Birmingham), West Midlands, England. The station shares its name with the local football ground, The Hawthorns, the home of West Bromwich Albion F.C., which it serves.

The station serves both Midland Metro (opened 1999) and is 5 km (3¼ miles) north of Birmingham Snow Hill on the third cross city line from Leamington Spa to Kidderminster. The service is operated by London Midland.

The station sits on part of the site once occupied by The Hawthorns Halt which was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1931, on their line from Birmingham Snow Hill to Wolverhampton Low Level. It served football specials and as such was not deemed worthy of 'station' status. It was comprised of three platforms: platform 3 catering for return travel to Stourbridge, with platforms 1 and 2 being sited the other side of Halfords Lane. The halt closed in 1968.

Pedestrian and vehicular access is via Halfords Lane.

Its passenger numbers are assisted with free parking and its close proximity to Junction 1 of the M5.

Extra services are laid on around the time of football matches to assist fans in travelling to and from the match.

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  Preceding station     Midland Metro     Following station  
Handsworth, Booth Street   Line 1   Kenrick Park
National Rail
Jewellery Quarter   London Midland
Snow Hill-Worcester		   Smethwick Galton Bridge
Jewellery Quarter   Chiltern Railways
London-Kidderminster
Peak hours only		   Smethwick Galton Bridge
Disused Railways
Handsworth and Smethwick   Great Western Railway
Later British Rail
Birmingham-Wolverhampton (1931-1968)		   West Bromwich
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Railway stations in the West Midlands county
Main line:
Open stations:
Acocks Green • Adderley Park • Aston • Berkswell • Bescot Stadium • Blake Street • Bloxwich • Bloxwich North • Bordesley • Bournville • Butlers Lane • Canley • Chester Road • Coseley • Cradley Heath • Dorridge • Duddeston • Dudley Port • Earlswood • Erdington • Five Ways • Four Oaks • Gravelly Hill • Hall Green • Hampton-in-Arden • Hamstead • Jewellery Quarter • Kings Norton • Langley Green • Lea Hall • Longbridge • Lye • Marston Green • Northfield • Old Hill • Olton • Perry Barr • Rowley Regis • Sandwell and Dudley • Selly Oak • Shirley • Small Heath • Smethwick Galton Bridge • Smethwick Rolfe Street • Solihull • Spring Road • Stechford • Stourbridge Junction • Stourbridge Town • Sutton Coldfield • Tame Bridge Parkway • The Hawthorns • Tile Hill • Tipton • Tyseley • University • Walsall • Whitlocks End • Widney Manor • Witton • Wylde Green • Wythall • Yardley Wood
Disused:
Albion • Aldridge • Baptist End • Bentley • Bilston Central • Bilston West • Blowers Green • Bradley • Brettell Lane • Brierley Hill • Brockmoor Halt • Bromley Halt • Brownhills • Brownhills Watling Street • Bushbury • Compton Halt • Coundon Road • Curzon Street • Daimler Halt • Daisy Bank • Darby End • Darlaston • Darlaston James Bridge • Dudley • Dunstall Park • Ettingshall Road • Gornal Halt • Great Bridge North • Great Bridge South • Hagley Road • Handsworth & Smethwick • Harborne • Harts Hill • Heath Town • Hockley • Icknield Port Road • Monmore Green • Monument Lane • Moseley • North Walsall • Old Hill High Street • Oldbury • Pelsall • Penns • Pensnett Halt • Pleck • Portobello • Priestfield • Princes End & Coseley • Rood End • Rotton Park Road • Round Oak • Rushall • Short Heath • Smethwick West • Soho • Soho & Winson Green • Somerset Road • Spon Lane • Streetly • Swan Village • Tettenhall • Tipton Five Ways • Walsall Wood • Wednesbury Central • Wednesbury Town • Wednesfield • Wednesfield Heath for Wolverhampton • West Bromwich • Willenhall Bilston Street • Willenhall Stafford Street • Windmill End • Winson Green • Wolverhampton Low Level • Wood Green
Heritage:
Midland Metro (Line 1):
List of West Midlands railway stations • Transport in the West Midlands • Midland Metro • Centro
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