Service Changes from 20 to 23 June
The railway line between Birmingham Snow Hill and Tyseley will be closed between Monday 20 and Thursday 23 June to enable major track work to be undertaken to improve passenger journeys for the Commonwealth Games. The work will overhaul switches and crossings - moving sections of track which allow trains to access and leave the train maintenance depot at Tyseley in Birmingham.
As a result, all West Midlands Railway services on the Stourbridge line will operate at the same times but will only operate to and from Birmingham Snow Hill. Birmingham Moor Street station will be closed over these four days to enable it to be deep cleaned.
Chiltern Railway will operate the services at 0641 from Stourbridge Junction and 0807 from Kidderminster but these will also terminate at Snow Hill, The 0716 service from Stourbridge Junction will not operate. In the evening, the only Chiltern service to operate over the line will be the 2315 departure from Snow Hill to Stourbridge Junction.
East of Birmingham, services will operate as follows.
- Hourly service between Spring Road and Stratford-upon-Avon
via Whitlocks End.
- Hourly service between Acocks Green and Stratford-upon-Avon
via Dorridge.
- Hourly off-peak service between Dorridge and Marylebone
increasing to half hourly in the morning and evening peaks.
Replacement bus services will operate from Snow Hill.
The West Midlands Railway press release may be read by clicking on the link below.