Wilnecote railway station is a railway station serving the town of Fazeley and suburb of Wilnecote in Staffordshire, England. It is 1.5 miles (2 km) south of Tamworth town centre. The station is situated beneath a bridge which carries the former A5 Watling Street.
History It was opened in 1842 by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway as Wilnecote and Fazeley, the name being shortened in 1904 to just Wilnecote.Pixton, B., (2005) Birmingham-Derby: Portrait of a Famous Route, Runpast Publishing
In 1889, John William Leader, a corn merchant of Tamworth was killed at the station when crossing the tracks he was struck by an express from Derby.
Stationmasters In 1961 Brian A. Martin was appointed station master a few months after his twentieth birthday and was at the time the youngest station master on British Railways.
Joseph Passey ca. 1851 – 1860 William Hunt 1860–1879 G. Hull 1879 A. Withers 1879–1880 William Headford 1880–1888 (formerly station master at Great Glen) George E. Cookson 1888–1899 (formerly station master at Finedon) Samuel Allanach 1900–1906 (afterwards station master at West Bridge, Leicester) Henry Molineux 1906–1908 George Parker 1908–1931 Percy Jackson 1931–1932 (formerly station master at Church Gresley) Walter J. Crisp 1932–1933 Noel Manton 1933–1940 (formerly station master at Borrowash, afterwards station master at Oakham) F.A. Brown from 1940 Brian A. Martin from 1961
Services Wilnecote is served by hourly CrossCountry services southbound to via Birmingham New Street, , and and northbound Nottingham via , the first two trains of the day to each of Cardiff and Nottingham start from New Street. One train per day on Mondays to Saturdays from Nottingham also calls at after Wilnecote. West Midlands Trains manage the station but do not provide any train services here.
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