Small Heath  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Small Heath,City of Birmingham England | ||||
| Coordinates | 52°27′47″N1°51′29″W / 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 | ||||
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| Station code | SMA | ||||
| Fare zone | 2 | ||||
| Classification | DfT category E | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1863 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2020/21 |  73,522 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  0.121 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.144 million | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.195 million | ||||
| 2024/25 | 0.224 million | ||||
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Small Heath railway station serves the areas ofSmall Heath andSparkbrook inBirmingham,West Midlands, England. The station is managed byWest Midlands Trains, which runs all the services.
The formerGreat Western Railway station building, opened in 1863 asSmall Heath and Sparkbrook on the main line fromLondon Paddington toBirkenhead Woodside, is on a bridge over the tracks shared with Golden Hillock Road (the B4145). TheA45 Small Heath Highway runs alongside. To the other side is the site of the formerBSA 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 nearbySmall Heath Park and the city of Birmingham.[1]
The station once had four platforms (both in anisland 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).[2]
On Mondays to Saturdays, daytime service is generally three trains per hour.
West Midlands Railway run services as part of theSnow Hill Lines.
Northbound, there are three trains per hour toBirmingham Snow Hill. Trains continue toKidderminster viaSmethwick Galton Bridge andStourbridge Junction, with 1tph continuing toWorcester viaDroitwich Spa.[3][4]
Southbound, there is one train per hour toDorridge viaSolihull and two trains per hour toWhitlocks End viaShirley, with one of the Whitlocks End services extending toStratford-upon-Avon via theNorth Warwickshire Line.
There is no Sunday service.
London Midland proposed the closure of the ticket office in 2011.[5] This request was denied.[6]
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Acocks Green or Tyseley | West Midlands Railway Stratford -Birmingham - Worcester via Kidderminster Snow Hill Lines | Bordesley or Birmingham Moor Street | ||
| West Midlands Railway Leamington toWorcester | ||||
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