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The Cross-City Line is a suburban rail line in the West Midlands region of England.It runs for 32 mi (51 km) from Redditch and Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, its two southern termini, to Lichfield, Staffordshire, its northern terminus, via Birmingham New Street, connecting the suburbs of Birmingham in between.
University railway station serves the University of Birmingham, Birmingham Women's Hospital, and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the West Midlands of England.It is on the Cross-City Line, which runs from Redditch and Bromsgrove to Lichfield via Birmingham New Street.
2tph northbound to Lichfield Trent Valley only. 2tph southbound to Redditch. Services on Sundays call at all stations between Lichfield T.V. and Redditch. The average journey time to Lichfield Trent Valley is around 3 minutes and the average journey time to Birmingham New Street is around 36 minutes. [7] [8]
The station is served by West Midlands Trains with local Transport for West Midlands branded "Cross-City" services, operated using Class 730 Electric multiple units (EMUs). [1] The off-peak service pattern is as follows: Mondays to Saturdays: 2tph northbound to Lichfield Trent Valley via Lichfield City, departing from Platform 1.
Lichfield Trent Valley is one of two railway stations that serve the city of Lichfield in Staffordshire, England; the other being Lichfield City in the city centre. It is a split-level station: low level platforms serve the Trent Valley section of the West Coast Main Line, with a single high level platform being the northern terminus of the Cross-City Line.
The service level was eventually boosted in May 1980, when hourly trains were reintroduced between Longbridge and Redditch as an extension of the recently commissioned Birmingham Cross-City Line from Lichfield City. This frequency was increased to half-hourly in 1989 and in 1992 the route was electrified (though only the centre main lines were ...
Chester Road railway station serves the areas of Pype Hayes, Erdington and Wylde Green in north-east Birmingham, in the West Midlands county of England. It is sited on the Cross-City Line between Bromsgrove/Redditch and Lichfield Trent Valley, via Birmingham New Street.
The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by West Midlands Trains. Redditch station sits at the end of a single track branch line from Barnt Green which forms part of the Cross-City Line. The line used to continue south to Ashchurch and also Evesham but this was closed in the 1960s.