Tame Bridge Parkway railway station

Tame Bridge Parkway

Location
Place	West Bromwich
Local authority	Sandwell
Coordinates	52°33′08″N 1°58′34″W / 52.552257°N 1.975991°W / 52.552257; -1.975991Coordinates: 52°33′08″N 1°58′34″W / 52.552257°N 1.975991°W / 52.552257; -1.975991
Grid reference	SP017949
Operations
Station code	TAB
Managed by	London Midland
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	0.382 million
2011/12	0.491 million
2012/13	0.503 million
2013/14	0.521 million
2014/15	0.535 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Transport for West Midlands
Zone	4
History
Key dates	Opened 1990 (1990)
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Tame Bridge Parkway from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Tame Bridge Parkway is a railway station in the north of the borough of Sandwell, in the West Midlands, England, close to the boundary with Walsall. The station is operated by London Midland. It is situated on the Walsall Line 9 miles (14 km) north of Birmingham New Street, part of the former Grand Junction Railway, opened in 1837.

The station was opened by British Rail in 1990, having been built at a cost of £600,000. It takes its name from the nearby River Tame.

Pedestrian and vehicular access is via the A4031 Walsall Road.

Services

Local and regional services are operated by London Midland. During Monday to Saturday daytimes, in each direction there are four trains an hour serving Tame Bridge Parkway, between Birmingham and Walsall.^[1] Services to Birmingham New Street call either at all stations via Aston or are designated as "semi-fast" and run non-stop to New Street via Winson Green.

Services in the other direction are for Walsall and stations to Rugeley Trent Valley, with three trains an hour terminating at the former and one going to the latter (two per hour at peak times and on Saturdays, although some Rugeley trains skip certain stations north of Walsall). During Monday to Saturday evenings and all day on Sundays, there are two trains per hour to Birmingham (one calls all stations and one runs non-stop). Northbound there are two trains per hour to Walsall (one calling all stations and one running non-stop) with one train per hour continuing to Rugeley Trent Valley.

Notes

↑ GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 70

External links

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Train times and station information for Tame Bridge Parkway railway station from National Rail
Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Tame Bridge Parkway railway station

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Bescot Stadium		London Midland Chase Line and Wolverhampton-Walsall		Hamstead
Walsall		London Midland Chase Line		Birmingham New Street

Railway stations in the West Midlands county

Open stations

Birmingham	Acocks Green Adderley Park Aston Blake Street Bordesley Bournville Butlers Lane Chester Road Duddeston Erdington Five Ways Four Oaks Gravelly Hill Hall Green Hamstead Jewellery Quarter Kings Norton Lea Hall Longbridge Moor Street New Street Northfield Perry Barr Selly Oak Small Heath Snow Hill Spring Road Stechford Sutton Coldfield Tyseley University Witton Wylde Green Yardley Wood

Coventry	Canley Coventry Coventry Arena Tile Hill

Dudley	Coseley Lye Stourbridge Junction Stourbridge Town

Sandwell	Bescot Stadium Cradley Heath Dudley Port Langley Green Old Hill Rowley Regis Sandwell and Dudley Smethwick Galton Bridge Smethwick Rolfe Street Tame Bridge Parkway The Hawthorns Tipton

Solihull	Berkswell Birmingham International Dorridge Earlswood Hampton-in-Arden Marston Green Olton Shirley Solihull Whitlocks End Widney Manor

Walsall	Bloxwich Bloxwich North Walsall

Wolverhampton	Wolverhampton

Outside West Midlands county, but within the Transport for West Midlands area	Wythall

Disused

Birmingham	Bromford Bridge Camp Hill Castle Bromwich Central Goods Church Road Curzon Street Granville Street Hagley Road Handsworth & Smethwick Handsworth Wood Hazelwell Hockley Icknield Port Road Kings Heath Lawley Street Lifford Longbridge (1915-1964) Monument Lane Moseley Penns Rotton Park Road Rubery Saltley Soho & Winson Green Soho Road Somerset Road Sutton Park Sutton Coldfield Town Winson Green

Coventry	Coundon Road Daimler Halt Foleshill Longford and Exhall

Dudley	Baptist End Blowers Green Brettell Lane Brierley Hill Brockmoor Halt Bromley Halt Darby End Dudley Gornal Halt Halesowen Harborne Harts Hill Old Hill High Street Pensnett Halt Round Oak Windmill End

Sandwell	Albion Great Bridge North Great Bridge South Newton Road Oldbury Princes End & Coseley Rood End Smethwick West Soho Spon Lane Swan Village Tipton Five Ways Wednesbury Central Wednesbury Town West Bromwich

Walsall	Aldridge Bentley Brownhills Brownhills Watling Street Darlaston Darlaston James Bridge North Walsall Pelsall Pleck Rushall Short Heath Streetly Walsall Wood Willenhall Bilston Street Willenhall Stafford Street Wood Green

Wolverhampton	Bilston Central Bilston West Bradley and Moxley Bushbury Compton Halt Daisy Bank Dunstall Park Ettingshall Road Heath Town Monmore Green Portobello Priestfield Tettenhall Wednesfield Heath for Wolverhampton Wednesfield Wolverhampton Low Level

Heritage

Tyseley, Warwick Road

List of West Midlands railway stations
Transport in the West Midlands
Transport for West Midlands

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