Jewellery Quarter (JEQ)

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Jewellery Quarter is a stop on the Birmingham Snow Hill - Worcester Line between Snow Hill and The Hawthorns.

WMR 172 005 departs Jewellery Quarter

Information
Type:	National Rail (Snow Hill Lines)
Station code:	JEQ
Opened:	1995
Platforms:	2 (+ 2 Midlands Metro)

Jewellery Quarter, serves the area of the same name just outside Birmingham city centre. The station was opened in 1995 as part of the restoration of cross-city services via Birmingham Snow Hill. No station had existed at this location previously though the former station of Hockley, which closed in 1972, was located nearby [1].

In 1999 the Midland Metro tram began operating, a stop at Jewellery Quarter is adjacent to the railway station (and with access via the platform). Access between the two railway platforms is via a footbridge.



Most services to Jewellery Quarter are operated by West Midlands Railway but some Chiltern Railways trains also stop during peak hours.

Station footbridge, a tunnel is just beyond the platforms at the Birmingham end

Chiltern 168 005 at Jewellery Quarter

Down this platform for the trams

Tram stop

In LM days 172 336 departs

[1] Hockley station <http://warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/hockley_station.htm>

Manchester Victoria (MCV)

Manchester Victoria is a major station in the city centre and the third busiest in Manchester. It is a combined mainline rail and Metrolink station. 

At Manchester Victoria

Information
Type:	National Rail (Northern & TPE Lines) & Manchester Metrolink
Station code:	MCV
Opened:	1844
Platforms:	6 (+ 4 Metrolink)

The station was opened in 1844 by the Manchester & Leeds Railway. The Liverpool & Manchester Railway extended it's line to the new station, replacing it's original terminus Manchester Liverpool Road. Originally the station had a single long platform but was extended and expanded a number of times until eventually reaching seventeen platforms in 1904. The current station facade dates from 1909.

In the 1980s British Rail began to concentrate services at Manchester Piccadilly. The station was reduced to six platforms and part of the station site sold off for redevelopment. Metrolink services began to use the station in 1992. By the 2000s the station was looking rather dilapidated. Between 2013 and 2015 the station was fully refurbished with a new roof. Metrolink services have also been moved to enable more capacity.

The station is served by Northern and Trans Pennine Express. 

Towards the tram platforms

A Metrolink tram passes the main concourse

A tram prepares to enter the station

Wimbledon (WIM)

Wimbledon is a major transport interchange in South West London served by National Rail, London Underground District Line and Tramlink services.

SWR 455 870 on platform 8

Information
Type:	National Rail (South Western Main Line & Thameslink) Transport for London (District Line & Tramlink)
Station code:	WIM
Opened:	1838
Platforms:	9 (+ 2 Tramlink)

The first station, known as Wimbledon & Merton, was opened by the London & South Western Railway in 1838, this station was the opposite side of Wimbledon Bridge, slightly to the South of the current station [1]. The District Railway extended it's line from Putney Bridge in 1889 building a terminus. The original Wimbledon station was rebuilt on the current site. Some years earlier in 1855 the Wimbledon & Croydon Railway opened a line from Wimbledon to West Croydon, since 2000 this line has been part of Tramlink. The station was renamed Wimbledon in 1909.

The Southern Railway rebuilt the station in the the 1920s [2]. Made from Portland stone, this is still the main building of the station. The station has eleven platforms [3]. Four are for District Line services which terminate at Wimbledon. Two platforms are for suburban rail services, one for Thameslink. Two platforms are retained for outer suburban services though tend to be used mostly during the Wimbledon tennis championships. There are also two platforms for Tramlink.

Thameslink 700 004

View down the platform, towards the signalbox

Tramlink 2543 waits to depart

[1] Jason Cross, London Underground Guide 2017 (Train Crazy, 2017) p. 169
[2] John Scott Morgan, London Underground in Colour (Ian Allan, 2013) p. 20
[3] John C Gillham, Wimbledon to Beckenham (Middleton Press, 2001) Fig. 2

Mitcham Junction (MIJ)

Mitcham Junction is a station in Merton, South London. Once a junction of two lines (hence the name) now it is an interchange for National Rail and Tramlink.

Information
Type:	National Rail (Sutton & Mole Valley Lines)
Station code:	MIJ
Opened:	1868
Platforms:	2

The station was opened in 1868 as a junction of the Sutton & Mole Valley and West Croydon to Wimbledon Lines. The latter line was closed in 1997 to become part of the Croydon Tramlink. Mitcham Junction Tramlink stop is adjacent to the station.

Both National Rail platforms have canopies, access between them is via a footbridge.

Mitcham Junction is served by Southern (who manage the station) and Thameslink and is well connected with trains to Wimbledon, London Victoria, London Blackfriars, St Albans, Epson and Sutton among others.

Thameslink 700 004 on a North bound service

Tram 2531 departs heading for Wimbledon

Station canopy and footbridge

Look down the platform

Southern 377 215 departs the station