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Wylde Green is a stop on the Northern half of the Birmingham Cross-City Line. It is located between Chester Road (which is actually closer to Wylde Green itself) and Sutton Coldfield. |
| WMR 323 202 arrives at Wylde Green |
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| Type: | National Rail (Cross-City Line) |
| Station code: | WYL |
| Opened: | 1862 |
| Platforms: | 2 |
The station was opened in 1862 by the London & North Western Railway on it's line from Birmingham New Street to Sutton Coldfield. The station was built to the standard layout as then used by the LNWR with wooden platform buildings, including a booking office and waiting rooms.
The station had no goods facilities though did have a signal box [1], this has now gone. A brick booking office has been retained though platform shelters are now of the corrugated iron type.
The station became a park & ride station in the 1970s with the addition of an adjacent car park with space for forty-five cars (now fifty-one). The line through Wylde Green was electrified in 1993. The station is served by West Midlands Trains.
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| View up the line towards Sutton |
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| Platform shelter |
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| A train approaches |
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| A WMR 323 waits at the station |
[1] Vic Mitchell, North of Birmingham (Middleton Press, 2014) Fig. 96
