On a cloudy Thursday in May 2023, the 18th, I took myself down the Cross-City Line again, this time to Four Oaks and the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield. It took three trains to get there, changing at Tamworth and Lichfield Trent Valley. Four Oaks railway station opened in 1884, and was the original northern…… Continue reading Cross-City Line – Four Oaks and Sutton Coldfield
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Cross-City Line – University & Alvechurch
It has been a short while since I last visited the Cross-City Line which runs from Lichfield Trent Valley to Bromsgrove and Redditch, and so I took a trip on Wednesday 12th April to Alvechurch, via University. The train was a lot busier than usual, because it was the Easter holidays. Normally, if I was…… Continue reading Cross-City Line – University & Alvechurch
Cross-City Line – Bournville and Kings Norton
On a grey and cold March Monday morning, I took a couple of trains down the Cross-City Line to visit Bournville and Kings Norton stations, and the villages which they serve. This would be my third time in Bournville; my first was a school trip to Cadbury World in the summer of 1996, and the…… Continue reading Cross-City Line – Bournville and Kings Norton
Cross-City Line – Butlers Lane and Blake Street, Sutton Coldfield
It was a cold, dark, and very early Saturday morning, 28th January, when I ticked off two more stations on the Cross-City Line which runs from Lichfield Trent Valley to Bromsgrove and Redditch. The 6:20am service to Plymouth is the first train of the day at Burton on Trent station, and I and a few…… Continue reading Cross-City Line – Butlers Lane and Blake Street, Sutton Coldfield
Cross-City Line – Bromsgrove
Welcome to the first post in a new series for the blog, where I attempt to visit all 25 railway stations on the Cross-City Line. The line runs from Lichfield Trent Valley station in the north to two southern termini; Redditch in the east and Bromsgrove in the west, via Birmingham New Street station. There…… Continue reading Cross-City Line – Bromsgrove
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