Small Heath railway station

Small Heath railway station serves the areas of Small Heath and Sparkbrook in Birmingham, West Midlands, England. The station is managed by West Midlands Trains, which runs all the services.

History

The former Great Western Railway station building, opened in 1863 as Small Heath and Sparkbrook on the main line from to Birkenhead Woodside, is on a bridge over the tracks shared with Golden Hillock Road. The A45 Small Heath Highway runs alongside. To the other side is the site of the former BSA factory. Nearby are the largely disused sidings which served local industry in the area.
Queen Victoria alighted at the station on 23 March 1887, while making a royal visit to nearby Small Heath Park and the city of Birmingham.
The station once had four platforms in use, following the quadrupling of the line by the Great Western Railway in 1906, but only the western pair are now operational.

On Mondays to Saturdays, daytime service is generally three trains per hour.
West Midlands Railway run services as part of the Snow Hill Lines.
Northbound, there are three trains per hour to Birmingham Snow Hill. Trains continue to Kidderminster via and, with 1tph continuing to Worcester via.
Southbound, there is one train per hour to Dorridge via Solihull and two trains per hour to Whitlocks End via Shirley, with one of the Whitlocks End services extending to via the North Warwickshire Line.
There is no Sunday service.
London Midland proposed the closure of the ticket office in 2011. This request was denied.