Acocks Green Railway Station

I have got off the train at this station a few times as a friend of mine lives in Acocks Green. I was actually quite surprised by how nice the station is. It is very nice and hard to imagine it is in the city as there are a few trees surrounding it and you can imagine that this is somewhere completely different — that is until you leave the station! Every time I have walked through here it has also been very clean and tidy, which is refreshing for a train station. The train from the centre of Birmingham to here does not take too long at all and in my experience it usually takes around ten minutes tops. There have never been many staff around when I have passed through, but I have always been here during off-​peak times. Overall, it is a nice little station.

This wonderful railway station feels like home to me. It links this suburb with Solihull, Warwick, Leamington and London Marlybone in one direction and Moor Street, Snow Hill, Jewellery Quarter and the Black Country in the other.
For now the station and ticket office are usually staffed by very polite and helpful employees. There are trains in both directions every 20 minutes during the day but less so in the evenings. The Sunday service is extremely limited.
I often joke to people who ask where I live that the best things about Acocks Green is the train line out of there. Obviously, there are many other wonderful reasons to live in this area (hey I’m there for a start!) but I do love that I can be in the city centre in 6 – 10 minutes. Often I call people that I am meeting in town to say I’m just leaving the house and they worry that I’ll be late but I never am.