Walsall Railway Station - Overview

Overview

Services from the station go to Birmingham New Street 10+3⁄₄ miles (17 km) south on the Walsall Line, (operated on behalf of Centro), and north to Cannock and Rugeley.

The station has three platforms:

• Platform 1: operating northbound services to Rugeley;
• Platform 2: operating southbound, semi-fast services from Rugeley to Birmingham New Street;
• Platform 3: (a terminus platform) operating local services to Birmingham New Street.

Platforms 2 and 3 have been recently refurbished, with a new waiting room added and enigmatic "poetry" on the walls of the stairs to the platforms. The mainline platforms are not electrified, but platform 3 (and the through line next to it) are electrified to 25kV AC Overhead power. This electrification ends for both tracks at the northern end of the platforms.

An S&B self-service ticket machine was placed on Platform 1 but was no longer in place in April 2011; however, a similar machine remains in the station booking hall which is at street level above platform 3.