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Perry Barr Railway Station is a railway station in Perry Barr, Birmingham, England, and is one of the oldest continuously operated railway station sites in the world, having first opened in 1837. The station has been rebuilt several times, including electrification of the line in the 1960s, and most recently in 2021-2022.
Former Perry Barr garage, which closed in December 2022. As of June 2024, National Express West Midlands operates a fleet of over 1,600 buses and coaches from eight garages in Acocks Green, Birmingham Central , Perry Barr, Yardley Wood, Pensnett, Walsall, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton. Perry Barr is the newest location, having opened in ...
West Midlands Bus route 11, also known as the Birmingham Outer Circle, is a 27-mile (43 km) route that circumnavigates Birmingham via the A4040 apart from a small deviation via the B4182 and A4030 in Bearwood. It is operated by National Express West Midlands. It operated in both clockwise and anti-clockwise directions as routes 11C and 11A ...
The station has a ticket office, but this has limited opening hours; a self-service ticket machine is provided for use when the ticket hall is closed and for collecting pre-paid tickets. Train running information is offered via automated announcements, CIS displays, timetable posters and customer help points on each side.
Perry Park is a park in Perry Barr, Birmingham, England, at grid reference The park houses Alexander Stadium and Perry Reservoir ( 52°31′55″N 1°54′09″W / 52.5320°N 1.9024°W / 52.5320; -1.9024 ), a small canal feeder reservoir for the Tame Valley Canal , and is bounded by the canal, the M6 motorway , the A34 and local
West Midlands Bus route 8, also known as the Birmingham Inner Circle, is a roughly circular bus route in Birmingham, England. [1] It follows the city's middle ring road with some small deviations on parts of the route. The service dates back to the days of Birmingham City Transport.
Perry Barr was formerly a chapelry in the parish of Handsworth, [8] on 26 March 1894 Perry Barr became a separate civil parish. Perry Barr Urban District was an urban district in Staffordshire from 1894 until 1928, [ 9 ] when it was largely incorporated into Birmingham and thus also Warwickshire (this included an area which is now considered ...
The signal box and old station building, just before the latter's 1899 closure, with the new down platform seen under the original arched road bridge (replaced in the mid-1960s, when the line was electrified). An unidentified ex-LNWR 0-8-0 'G1' passes through Great Barr station, towards Perry Barr, with a coal train, circa 1923.