Bloxwich railway station serves Bloxwich, in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by West Midlands Railway. It is situated between Bloxwich North and Walsall, from Ryecroft Junction, just east of Walsall.
History
The present station opened on 17 April 1989, as part of the first stage of the reopening of the Chase Line from Walsall to Hednesford to passenger trains under British Rail.
An earlier Bloxwich station existed a few hundred yards to the south, just north of the site of the former level crossing and Bloxwich Signal Box. It opened on 1 February 1858 and closed to passengers on 18 January 1965.
The line was electrified by December 2018, with electric trains running from May 2019.
Passenger volume +Passenger Volume at Bloxwich2002–032004–052005–062006–072007–082008–092009–102010–112011–122012–132013–142014–152015–162016–172017–182018–192019–202020–212021–222022–23Entries and exits17,27816,08016,31721,12924,00338,49042,60242,72639,17041,80843,54040,18443,72849,67244,19849,18655,01414,79460,32475,046 The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.
Services
The station is currently served by West Midlands Trains with local Transport for West Midlands branded "Chase Line" services, operated using Electric multiple units (EMUs).
Usual off-peak services at Bloxwich follow a pattern such as the one below:
Mondays to Saturdays: 2 trains per hour northbound to via , departing from Platform 2. 2 trains per hour southbound to via and , departing from Platform 1.
Sundays: 1 train per hour northbound to Rugeley Trent Valley. 1 train per hour southbound to Birmingham International.
Journey times are typically 9 minutes to Walsall and 31 minutes to Birmingham New Street, where connections to Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent and Crewe are available, although a small number of trains (2 per day on weekdays) start/terminate at Hednesford.
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