Smethwick Galton Bridge railway station

Smethwick Galton Bridge
Smethwick Galton Bridge
Smethwick Galton Bridge high-level.
Location
Place	Smethwick
Local authority	Sandwell
Grid reference	Template:Gbmapscaled
Operations
Station code	SGB
Managed by	London Midland
Platforms in use	4
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	88,782
2005/06 *	102,692
2006/07 *	116,401
2007/08 *	130,607
2008/09 *	310,678
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	West Midlands
Zone	2
History
1995	Opened
National Rail - UK railway stations
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Smethwick Galton Bridge from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Smethwick Galton Bridge is a split-level railway station in Smethwick, West Midlands, England. It is at a point where two railways lines cross on two levels. It has platforms on both lines, allowing interchange between them. The two low-level platforms serve the Birmingham New Street to Wolverhampton Line, while the two high-level platforms serve the Birmingham Snow Hill to Worcester Line. The high level line passes over the low level line at a right angle on a bridge. London Midland manage the station and operate the majority of its services, with others provided by Chiltern Railways and Arriva Trains Wales.

The present station opened in 1995 when the line from Birmingham Snow Hill reopened, replacing the nearby Smethwick West station. It is named after the adjacent Galton Bridge. It is an important interchange, 357,845 people changed trains at the station during In 2011/12.

Services

The High Level platforms 1 & 2 are served by Chiltern Railways & London Midland. Chiltern Railways run peak hour services between Kidderminster and London Marylebone using Class 168 trains, with 6 trains to London in the morning and 5 from London in the evening. London Midland local services run as part of the cross-city Snow Hill Lines - using Class 172 units; running every 10 minutes during the daytime, and every 30 minutes on Sundays & evenings to Stourbridge Junction and Birmingham Snow Hill and Moor Street. Some trains to Stourbridge run on to Kidderminster, the Worcester triangle (Worcester Shrub Hill and/or Worcester Foregate Street) and Great Malvern. Trains to Birmingham split off and either go on to Dorridge, with some trains from Dorridge extending onto Leamington Spa or to Whitlocks End and Stratford-upon-Avon.

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The low-level platforms

The low level platforms 3 & 4 are served by both London Midland and Arriva Trains Wales. London Midland operate two trains per hour each direction from Walsall to Wolverhampton via Birmingham New Street, usually operated by Template:Brc electric multiple units; and an hourly Birmingham-Liverpool Lime Street service, usually formed of a Template:Brc Desiro electric multiple unit. Arriva Trains Wales operates an hourly service between Birmingham International and either Chester (with most extending through to Holyhead) or Aberystwyth and Pwllheli. These services are formed of pairs of Template:Brc Express Sprinter diesel multiple units.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Birmingham New Street		Arriva Trains Wales Birmingham - Chester		Wolverhampton
		Arriva Trains Wales Cambrian Line
Smethwick Rolfe Street		London Midland Walsall - Wolverhampton		Sandwell and Dudley
Birmingham New Street		London Midland Birmingham - Liverpool		Wolverhampton
The Hawthorns		London Midland Leamington-Worcester		Langley Green
		Chiltern Railways London-Kidderminster

External links

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• Train times and station information for Smethwick Galton Bridge railway station from National Rail
• Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Smethwick Galton Bridge station