Tame Bridge Parkway is a park and ride station in Sandwell, West Midlands between
Hamstead and
Bescot Stadium.
| Information |
| Type: |
National Rail
(Chase Line) |
| Station code: |
TAB |
| Opened: |
1990 |
| Platforms: |
2 |
The station was opened as
Tame Bridge in 1990 by British Rail. The Parkway part of the name was added in 1997 [1]. The station takes it's name from the nearby river Tame plus the Tame Valley Canal which crosses the railway line just South of the platform ends on the Grand Junction Aqueduct (the line originally being built by the Grand Junction Railway).
The station has a staffed booking office and spaces for over two hundred and thirty cars in the adjacent car park. The station is managed by West Midlands Railway and there are four trains an hour in both directions operated by West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway.
Two of these trains are on the service between
Wolverhampton and
Walsall via
Birmingham New Street. Two trains an hour also go onto
Rugeley Trent Valley and
Birmingham International (one of which then goes onto
London Euston).
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| LNWR 350 372 arrives at Tame Bridge Parkway |
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| Booking office |
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| View down the platform, the canal aqueduct can be seen in the background |
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| View from the road |
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| Platform shelter |
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| The station is served by LNWR and WMR, both present in this image |
[1] Vic Mitchell, North of Birmingham (Middleton Press, 2014) Fig. 53
