Marston Green is a stop on the West Coast Main Line in Solihull in between Birmingham International and Lea Hall. The station is literally at the end of the runway for Birmingham Airport though Birmingham International is the station for airline passengers as this is near the terminal building.
Information
Type:
National Rail
(West Coast Main Line)
Station code:
MGN
Opened:
1838
Platforms:
2
The station was opened by the London & Birmingham Railway in 1838 on their line between Birmingham and Coventry. The station originally had two goods sidings and a refuge siding. The goods yard was closed in 1964. The signalbox remained in use until 1976.
Due to the proximity of Birmingham Airport (originally Elmdon Aerodrome) there were emergency signals at the station for the event of an aeroplane landing on the railway line!
Both platforms originally had wooden buildings with canopies but following electrification of the line in the 1960s and a rebuild of the station in the mid-1970s nothing of the original station now remains [1]. The station is served by West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway.
TfW 158 838 passes through
Main station building
LNWR 350 107 arrives with a Birmingham bound service
View from the footbridge
View towards Birmingham
A London Euston bound Pendolino passes through
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Rugby to Birmingham (Middleton Press, 2008) Fig. 99
