Lichfield Trent Valley is a split-level station in Staffordshire, with the northern terminus of the Cross-City Line being on the high-level and the West Coast Main Line between Tamworth and Rugeley Trent Valley below.
WMR 323 207 arrives at the high-level platform
Information
Type:
National Rail (West Coast Main Line & Cross-City Line)
Station code:
LTV
Opened:
1847
Platforms:
3
The station was first opened by the Trent Valley Railway in 1847 as Lichfield. A couple of years later the South Staffordshire Railway built a nearby station called Lichfield Trent Valley Junction. In 1871 the London & North Western Railway, which had absorbed both companies, closed both of these stations and amalgamated all the services at a new Lichfield Trent Valley station on the current site. Lichfield also has the more central Lichfield City which is the next stop along the Cross-City Line.
Once the high-level platforms were through platforms on a route to Burton-on-Trent but the platforms were closed in 1965 when services between Lichfield City and Burton-on-Trent ceased (the lines themselves remain open for freight and diversions) before being re-opened in 1988 as the terminus of Cross-City Line which was extended from Lichfield City [1]. The low-level platforms nowadays serve the Rugby-Stafford section of the WCML.
The station was upgraded in the early 2010s with a new station building and a larger car park. The station is managed by London North Western Railway.
LNWR 350 120 with a North bound service
Freightliner 66 566 brings a freight through the station
The high-level platform
This is where you are
View down the WCML platforms
[1] Vic Mitchell, North of Birmingham (Middleton Press, 2014) p. 117
