Blake Street is a stop on the Cross-City Line in Sutton Coldfield betweenButlers LaneandShenstone. It is located on the border between the West Midlands and Staffordshire.
WMR 323 206 at Blake Street
Information
Type:
National Rail (Cross-City Line)
Station code:
BKT
Opened:
1884
Platforms:
2
The station was opened by the London & North Western Railway in 1884 as part of the extension of the Birmingham New Street to Sutton Coldfieldline to Lichfield City. Blake Street (which is named after the road that runs across just to the North of the station - it is where the county border is too) was built with a goods yard and cattle pens, both being down from station towards Birmingham. The goods yard was closed in 1964 [1]. The station became part of the Cross-City Line in 1978. The station was electrified along with the rest of the line in 1992.
Trains can terminate at Blake Street though that happens rarely now. Access between the platforms is via a subway, there being a manned ticket office at the end of the subway on the Birmingham side. Each platform is also accessible from ground level via ramps. The station is managed by West Midlands Railway.
View down the platform
Platform shelter
Waiting room
Subway between the platforms, the station entrance is ahead
WMR 323 213 arrives with a Birmingham bound service
[1] Vic Mitchell, North of Birmingham (Middleton Press, 2014) Fig. 109
