Aston

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Aston

Station code: AST National Rail
Where: English West Midlands, England
Opened on the Grand Junction Railway.
Opened on the Sutton Coldfield Branch (London and North Western Railway).

Chronology Dates

17/01/1963British Railways
Additional Condor conflat container service introduced between Glasgow Gushetfaulds Goods and Birmingham Aston.
  /  /1965British Railways
Having been eclipsed by the Freightliner service, the Condor conflat container service ends. This ran between Glasgow Gushetfaulds Freightliner Terminal and London Hendon, and the Glasgow to Birmingham Aston.

News items

23/05/2022First train runs on Midlands newest and longest railway bridge [Network Rail]
13/03/2014Bromsgrove £17.4m railway station replacement starts [BBC News]