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Barnt Green Station
Barnt Green station was opened in 1844. It stands at the junction of the Redditch branch of the Cross-City Line and the Cross Country Route. Threatened with closure following the 1963 Beeching Report, it was reprieved.
Footfall at March 2024 was 298,000. There is a link to Footfall graphs here
Class 730 for Redditch arriving, 4 Aug 25.
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3 coach Class 730 departing for Bromsgrove, 4 Aug 25
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A new footbridge with increased clearance for 25kV running wires was built in 2015.
Until the lift installation is complete, there is step free access to platforms 1 and 4 only.
Work to instal lifts began in February 2025.
The work will take about
8 months as work can only be undertaken at night and at weekends when trains are not running.
In early August the work on the foundations for the lift shafts was in progress and the lift shafts were on site.
By late August, all 3 lift shafts had been craned in to place.
National Grid have recently connected up the power supply to the station.
There is a link to more pictures of the work in progress
here
There is no PA system or information screen on platform 1. Since the introduction of new
train departure screens which are platform specific, the station has lost the screen which
summarised departures with their respective platforms.
There is a car park on the eastern (or village) side of the station by platform 4.
Currently it is the works compound for the lift installation.
Barnt Green Parish Council has a free commuter car park on the other side of the station
on Fiery Hill Road by the junction of Kendal End Road. It is about 200 yards from the
station access to Platform 1.
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