Gravelly Hill is a stop on the Northern half of the Cross City Line in Birmingham between
Aston and
Erdington. The station is very close to Gravelly Hill Interchange a.k.a. the Spaghetti Junction.
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| In London Midland days 323 204 departs heading North |
| Information |
| Type: |
National Rail (Cross-City Line) |
| Station code: |
GVH |
| Opened: |
1862 |
| Platforms: |
2 |
The station was opened by the London & North Western Railway in 1862 on it's line from
Birmingham to
Sutton Coldfield. The two-storey booking office has survived though everything else on the station has changed. The station had much more extensive platform buildings originally [1] but these days, the booking office aside, is the usual collection of bus shelters.
The station is in a cutting with the top storey of the booking office at the end of a ramp down from road level. The original wooden footbridge and the older station buildings were removed when the Cross City Line was electrified in the early 1990s [2]. Both platforms have step-free access.
The station is managed by West Midlands Railway, services between
Lichfield and
Redditch or
Bromsgrove are at up to six trains per hour.
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| Station sign |
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| Ramp down to the booking office |
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| The ramp for the other platform |
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| Station view from the bridge to the North of the station |
[1] Vic Mitchell, North of Birmingham (Middleton Press, 2014) Fig. 87
[2] Ibid. Fig. 88
