Bloxwich railway station

Bloxwich railway station serves Bloxwich, in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by West Midlands Railway.

The present station opened in 1989, as part of the first stage of the reopening of the Chase Line from Walsall to Hednesford to passenger trains under British Rail. An earlier Bloxwich station existed a few hundred yards to the south, just north of the site of the former level crossing and Bloxwich Signal Box (which in April 2011 still retained its London Midland Region of British Railways white-on-maroon enamel sign). That station closed to passengers on 18 January 1965 and to goods on 10 August 1964.

The station is currently served by West Midlands Trains with local Transport for West Midlands branded "Chase Line" services,^[2][3] operated using Class 730 Electric multiple units (EMUs).^[4]

Usual off-peak services at Bloxwich follow a pattern such as the one below:

Services are listed in trains per hour (tph)

Mondays to Saturdays:

• 2 tph northbound to Rugeley Trent Valley via Hednesford, departing from Platform 2.
• 2 tph southbound to Birmingham International via Walsall and Birmingham New Street, departing from Platform 1.

Sundays:

• 1 tph northbound to Rugeley Trent Valley.
• 1 tph southbound to Birmingham International.

Journey times are typically 9 minutes to Walsall and 31 minutes to Birmingham New Street,^[5] where connections to Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent and Crewe are available, although a small number of trains (2 per day on weekdays) start/terminate at Hednesford.

• Train times and station information for Bloxwich railway station from National Rail

52°37′05″N 2°00′40″W / 52.618°N 2.011°W / 52.618; -2.011