Small Heath railway station

Small Heath
General information
Location	Small Heath, City of Birmingham England
Coordinates	52.463°N 1.858°W / 52.463; -1.858
Grid reference	SP096850
Managed by	West Midlands Trains
Transit authority	Transport for West Midlands
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	SMA
Fare zone	2
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	1863
Passengers
2019/20	0.204 million
2020/21	73,522
2021/22	0.121 million
2022/23	0.144 million
2023/24	0.195 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Small Heath railway station serves the areas of Small Heath and Sparkbrook in Birmingham, West Midlands, England. The station is managed by West Midlands Trains, which runs all the services.

History

The former Great Western Railway station building, opened in 1863 as Small Heath and Sparkbrook on the main line from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside, is on a bridge over the tracks shared with Golden Hillock Road (the B4145). The A45 Small Heath Highway runs alongside. To the other side is the site of the former BSA factory. Nearby are the largely disused sidings which served local industry in the area.

Queen Victoria alighted at the station on 23 March 1887, while making a royal visit to nearby Small Heath Park and the city of Birmingham.

The station once had four platforms (both in an island configuration) in use, following the quadrupling of the line by the Great Western Railway in 1906, but only the western pair are now operational (as these are the only ones that trains can use to reach Moor Street & Snow Hill).

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays, daytime service is generally three trains per hour.

West Midlands Railway run services as part of the Snow Hill Lines.

Northbound, there are three trains per hour to Birmingham Snow Hill. Trains continue to Kidderminster via Smethwick Galton Bridge and Stourbridge Junction, with 1tph continuing to Worcester via Droitwich Spa.

Southbound, there is one train per hour to Dorridge via Solihull and two trains per hour to Whitlocks End via Shirley, with one of the Whitlocks End services extending to Stratford-upon-Avon via the North Warwickshire Line.

There is no Sunday service.

London Midland proposed the closure of the ticket office in 2011. This request was denied.

External links

• Train times and station information for Small Heath railway station from National Rail
• Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Small Heath railway station
• Warwickshire Railways page

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Acocks Green or Tyseley		West Midlands Railway Stratford - Birmingham - Worcester via Kidderminster Snow Hill Lines		Bordesley or Birmingham Moor Street
		West Midlands Railway Leamington to Worcester