Chester Road is a stop on the northern half of the Cross-City Line in Pype Hayes in Birmingham between Erdington and Wylde Green. The station gets it's name from the A452 Chester Road which passes next to it.
WMR 323 204 departs north
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Cross-City Line)
Station code:
CRD
Opened:
1863
Platforms:
2
The station was opened by the London & North Western Railway in 1863 on its line from Birmingham to Sutton Coldfield. The station had wooden platform buildings and retained gas lighting until the 1960s [1]. The station is on an embankment with ramps (and steps as well on one side) up to the platforms and booking office. Platform 2 also has a second access point at the end of the platform.
Little remains of the original station nowadays with much change happening when the line going through Chester Road was electrified in the early 1990s. The original LNWR waiting room was preserved and is now at Market Bosworth on the Battlefield Line [2].
The current station has fairly standard corrugated iron shelters and a large free car park as part of the park and ride rail scheme in the city. Chester Road is managed by West Midlands Railway who operate all of the trains which serve the station.
323 205 prepares to depart
View down the platforms
A Cross Country HST passes through
Bridge with Chester Road sign over the Chester Road!
323 221 in retro Regional Railways livery departs
[1] Vic Mitchell, North of Birmingham (Middleton Press, 2014) Fig. 92 [2] Ibid. Fig. 93
