RAILSCOT | Aston

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).

Nearby stations Witton Saltley Bloomsbury and Nechets Gravelly Hill Duddeston Birmingham [Vauxhall] Lawley Street Perry Barr Lawley Street Adderley Park Birmingham Curzon Street Bromford Forge Birmingham St Chads [Tram] St Pauls [Tram] Birmingham Snow Hill	Aston Shed Windsor Street Goods Landor Street Junction Lawley Street Junction Grand Junction Birmingham L&B Roundhouse Top Yard [Curzon Street] Proof House Junction St Andrews Junction Hockley Tunnel East Snow Hill South Tunnel Hockley Tunnel West Handsworth Junction Hamstead Tunnel Soho Pool Wharf Goods
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

17/01/1963	British Railways Additional Condor conflat container service introduced between Glasgow Gushetfaulds Goods and Birmingham Aston.
/ /1965	British 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

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