General information | |
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Location | Wilnecote, Tamworth England |
Grid reference | SK217014 |
Managed by | West Midlands Railway[1] |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | WNE |
Classification | DfT category F2 |
Key dates | |
1842 | Opened as Wilnecote and Fazeley |
1904 | Renamed as Wilnecote |
Passengers | |
2018/19 | 124,596 |
2019/20 | 117,166 |
2020/21 | 17,668 |
2021/22 | 59,966 |
2022/23 | 74,728 |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Wilnecote railway station is a small unmanned station serving the suburban area of Wilnecote 1.5 miles (2 km) south of Tamworth town centre in Staffordshire, England.[2] The station is situated beneath a bridge which carries the former A5 Watling Street.
It was opened in 1842 by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway as Wilnecote and Fazeley, the name being shortened in 1904.[3]
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.[4]
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.[5]
Wilnecote is served by hourly CrossCountry services soutbound Cardiff Central via Birmingham New Street, Cheltenham Spa, Gloucester and Newport and northbound Nottingham via Derby, the first two trains of the day to each of Cardiff and Nottingham start from New Street.[14] West Midlands Trains manage the station but do not provide any train services there.