Posted 20th May 2013 | 3 Comments

New station opens in West Midlands

TRAINS have started to call at a new station in the West Midlands, which opened yesterday with the launch of the summer timetables.

Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway, between Wilmcote and Stratford, has a generally hourly service to Birmingham Snow Hill operated by London Midland.

The new £7 million station has been built as part of Warwickshire County Council's Sustainable Transport Project, and was funded by the Department of Transport.

It is intended mainly for commuters, and is close to a park and ride site which will make trains much more accessible to motorists than the existing station in the centre of Stratford.

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  • Roger Collett, Darlington

    It is all very well to talk about re-instatement of the Stratford-upon-Avon to Honeybourne line, but part of the old track bed is now the A4390, part of the southern bypass. A lot of the old trackbed is also a tarmac cycle path. Practicalities that could very well prevent the rail extension from ever happening. Just goes to show the lack of forethought that goes with closures and subsequent selloff of railway assets.

  • SHAUN SPENCER-SALLIS, BASINGSTOKE

    i agree, but Why just for freight?

  • jack99, Oxford

    Now extend the Stratford Line to Honeybourne and extend the Stratford trains to Oxford ( ARUP GRIP 3 Feasibility Study shows an excellent rate of return ) and reinstate Honeybourne to Cheltenham for the freight trains.