The Hawthorns is a railway / light rail interchange in West Bromwich. It is adjacent to West Bromwich Albion's football ground and shares the same name.
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Jewellery Lines) &
TfWM Midland Metro
Station code:
THW
Opened:
1995
Platforms:
2 (+2 Metro)
The station was opened in 1995 on the site of the football-only Hawthorns Halt which was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1931 and stayed open until 1968 though only served football specials.
The Hawthorns was opened as part of the Jewellery Line which restored services to Birmingham Snow Hillunlike the earlier station it is open every day the railway is open and not just on match days.
In 1999 the Midland Metro also opened stops next to the railway station. Access between the platforms is via an over bridge to the ticket hall and station entrances.
LM 172 337 stops on a Stourbridge bound service
Access bridge between all platforms, here we are on the Metro platform, a railway platform is to the right
Tame Bridge Parkway is a park and ride station in Sandwell, West Midlands between Hamstead and Bescot Stadium.
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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.
Tackley is on the Cherwell Valley Line in Oxfordshire between Heyford and Oxford.
GWR 165 127 departs heading for Oxford
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Type:
National Rail (Cherwell Valley Line)
Station code:
TAC
Opened:
1931
Platforms:
2
The station was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1931 as Tackley Halt [1] ("Halt" was removed from the name in 1961). The station had a basic wooden shelter, this has now been replaced by a modern plastic shelter.
Until recently Tackley had no footbridge or subway, to get between platforms (and also cross the railway line) a foot crossing was provided with manually operated gates. As non-stopping trains can pass through the station at high speed, people crossing always needed to be pretty alert! Approaching trains sounded their horns but anyone crossing only had a few seconds before the train passed through. This crossing has now been closed, a fatality occurred on the crossing in 2008, and a temporary footbridge built pending a more permanent solution.
Most trains that stop at Tackley are GWR services between Banbury and Oxford though a few services also go straight through to Reading. Chiltern Railways service for between Banbury and Oxford also stops at the station once a day.
A Cross Country services passes through
Information display and shelter
Footbridge
GWR 165 127 again, this time Banbury bound
Platform shelter, unfortunately it seems popular with wasps!
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Didcot to Banbury (Middleton Press, 2003) Fig. 82
Tufnell Park is a stop on the London Underground's Northern Line High Barnetbranch in Islington, North London between Kentish Town and Archway.
Northern Line 51677 departs
Information
Type:
Transport for London (London Underground Northern Line High Barnet Branch)
Station code:
ZTP
Opened:
1907
Platforms:
2
The station was opened by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway in 1907, later becoming part of the London Underground Northern Line. The station has a surface building designed by Leslie Green [1]. The station has lifts between surface and platform level as well as stairs, the station does not have escalators.
The station was refurbished in 2004.
Station name written in the tiles
Surface building
Down the platform
[1] Jason Cross, London Underground Guide 2017 (Train Crazy, 2017) p. 162
Totteridge & Whetstone is a stop on the London Underground Northern Line's High Barnet Branch in north London between Woodside Park and High Barnet.
Northern Line 51665 arrives with a north bound service
Information
Type:
Transport for London (London Underground Northern Line)
Station code:
ZTW
Opened:
1872
Platforms:
2
The station was opened (as Whetstone & Totteridge) by the Great Northern Railway in 1872, though has originally been a project of the Edgware, Highgate & London Railway. The name was switched around two years later [1]. In 1923 the station became part of the London North Eastern Railway. In the late 1930s the High Barnet branch became part of the London Underground's Northern Heights project. The first Underground trains began serving Totteridge & Whetstone in 1940, LNER services ceased the following year. LNER and later British Railways freight services continued to use the station's goods yard until 1962.
The station retains it's original GNR buildings, the main station building being at street level over the lines. Access between the platforms is via a footbridge. The goods yard is now the station's car park! The station has at least sixteen trains in each direction per hour, southbound trains go to either Morden or Battersea Power Station.
51530 departs north
View down the platforms
Waiting to go
Heading north
Heading south
[1] Jason Cross, London Underground Guide 2017 (Train Crazy, 2017) p. 161
Tyseley is at the junction of the Chiltern Main Line and Stratford-upon-Avon line in Birmingham between Small Heath and Spring Road or Acocks Green. It is also adjacent to a motive power depot and the Birmingham Railway Museum / Tyseley Locomotive Works (see below).
A non-stopping Cross Country service heads through Tyseley
Information
Type:
National Rail (Chiltern Main Line, Snow Hill Lines)
Station code:
TYS
Opened:
1906
Platforms:
4
The station was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1906 on what was originally the line from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside at the junction of the North Warwickshire Line down to Stratford-upon-Avon [1], the station was known as Tyseley Junction for a time. The station has a ticket office and entrance on the main road bridge that crosses a wide cutting. The four platforms consist of two islands both of which retain their GWR canopies and platform buildings.
Tyseley did lose the use of two of its platforms for a time but these were restored by Network Rail in 2008. The station is remarkably unchanged from its GWR days though the track layout has been greatly simplified [2].
Under the canopies
The booking hall is located on the road overbridge
Down the platform
Birmingham Railway Museum / Tyseley Railway Works
A large motive power depot and carriage sidings were built next to Tyseley railway station to cater for GWR's Birmingham division. The steam shed was closed in 1967. A couple of years a charitable trust was set up to build and maintain a workshop for steam locomotives which were now entering preservation. Lease of a site at Tyseley depot was purchased, flanked either side by parts of the remaining MPD and work began on the new steam workshop in 1969 [1].
By 1972 facilities were sufficient to allow the first trial run of a steam locomotive on the main line after BR withdrawal between Tyseley and Didcot. The site is now usually known as the Tyseley Railway Works (though the Tyseley station nameboards still refer to the railway museum). The works are the base of the steam excursion operator Vintage Trains as well as being host to a number of rebuild, restoration and new build projects as well as looking after the museum's collection and other rolling stock.
New build steam locomotives in the workshop
GWR Pannier tank 7752 at an open day
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Banbury to Birmingham (Middleton Press, 2004) map. XXVI [2] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham (Moor Street) (Middleton Press, 2006) fig. 94 [3] Birmingham Railway Museum Guide Book, p. 5
Trinity Way is a stop on the West Midlands Metro Line 1 in West Bromwich between Kenrick Park and West Bromwich Central.
Tram 31 arrives at Trinity Way
Information
Type:
West Midlands Metro
Opened:
1999
Platforms:
2
The tram stop is one of the original stops on the network which opened in 1999. Unlike some other stops on the line, Trinity Way was not built on the site of a former railway station. The stop is named after the nearby A4031 Trinity Way road.
Tonbridge is a stop on the South Eastern Main Line in Kent between Hildenborough and Paddock Wood. It is also the terminus of a line from Redhill and there is a line to Hastings.
Southeastern 466 031 at Tonbridge
Information
Type:
National Rail
(South Eastern Main Line)
Station code:
TON
Opened:
1842
Platforms:
4
The first station in Tunbridge (as the town was known then) by the South Eastern Railway in 1842. This station was slightly to the east of the current one which opened in 1864. Before that in 1852, the station was renamed Tunbridge Junction with the opening of a branch to Hastings. The station was moved to it's current location when the SER opened a new route from London Bridge which joined the existing line at Tunbridge. The station was renamed Tonbridge Junction in 1893, when the town itself was renamed Tonbridge to avoid confusion with Tunbridge Wells. The final rename to Tonbridge occurred in 1929 [1]. Next to the station is are two large railway yards either side of the station, the goods shed and locomotive depot has been closed [2].
The main station building which is on a bridge over the railway lines was rebuilt in 1958. The main line through Tonbridge was electrified in 1961. The Hastings Line was electrified in 1986, the line to Redhill finally followed suit in 1993. The station was refurbished in the early 2010s. The platforms are down steps or lifts from the road bridge level main station building. The station is managed by Southeastern Railway.
View down the platform
Southern 377 327 waits with a Redhill service
A variety of locomotives and stock at Tonbridge yard
Southeastern 375 907 arrives at Tonbridge
GB Railfreight 73 128 leads two sister locomotives through Tonbridge
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Redhill to Ashford (Middleton Press, 1990) Fig. 53
[2] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Tonbridge to Hastings (Middleton Press, 1987) Fig. 6
Tamworth in Staffordshire is split into a high-level station on the Cross Country Route between Wilnecote and Burton-on-Trent, and a low-level station on the West Coast Main Line between Polesworth and Lichfield Trent Valley.
WMR 730 010 arrives at Tamworth on a test run along the WCML
Information
Type:
National Rail
(West Coast Main Line & Cross Country Route)
Station code:
TAM
Opened:
1839
Platforms:
4
The high-level part of the station came first, being opened by the Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway in 1839. The London & North Western Railway built platforms for it's Trent Valley Line in 1847 which ran underneath the earlier line. The new joint station was built and shared between the LNWR and Midland Railway [1].
This station was replaced by a modern design in 1962 [2], the Trent Valley Line (now part of the West Coast Main Line) was electrified at the same time. The high-level lines had to be raised to allow for the catenary.
The two parts of the station were officially named "high-level" and "low-level" in 1924, this naming convention remaining in place until 1971 [3]. Both levels of the station once had numerous sidings, freight yards and the high-level had a turntable. These have all now gone including the once busy Royal Mail facility that would handle hundreds of mailbags a night and required twenty postmen [4].
The station is managed by London North Western Railway.
A Cross Country service arrives at the high level part of the station
Platform shelter in LNWR colours
A freight roars through on the high level
A London bound Desiro stands on a low level platform
A Cross Country DMU waits on the high level platform
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Tamworth to Derby (Middleton Press, 2015) Fig. 1 [2] David Lawrence, British Rail Designed 1948-97 (Ian Allan, 2016) p. 83 [3] Vic Mitchell, Birmingham to Tamworth and Nuneaton (Middleton Press, 2014) Fig. 66 [4] Ibid. Fig. 70
Tile Hill is a stop on the West Coast Main Line in the West Midlands between Berkswell and Canley.
LNWR 350 406 departs
Information
Type:
National Rail
(West Coast Main Line)
Station code:
THL
Opened:
1850
Platforms:
2
The station was opened by the London & Birmingham Railway in 1850 as Allesley Lane, changing to Allesley Gate in 1857. The name changed again to Tile Hill in 1864. The station was originally located at a road crossing with the platform staggered either side of the level crossing [1]. The station was rebuilt when the WCML was electrified through Tile Hill in the 1960s and the platforms from then on faced each other. The level crossing was replaced by a road bridge in 2004. The platforms were both extended in 2009.
The station has a staffed ticket office and substantial brick waiting room. The other shelters on the station are of the bus shelter type. There is a footbridge for transfer between the platforms. The station is managed by West Midlands Railway though most services are handled by London Northwestern Railway (all part of the same company of course).
LNWR 350 114 arrives with a Birmingham bound service
View down the platform, a 350 passes underneath the footbridge
Looking up towards Birmingham
View from the roadbridge
Booking office and main waiting area
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Rugby to Birmingham (Middleton Press, 2008) Fig. 81
