Wylde Green Railway Station

A ticket booth rather than office just about provides a roof for those in the queue, but that’s about all the shelter you’ll find until you’re on the platform themselves. It has two, one taking commuters towards Brum, the other towards Lichfield.
From Station Road, you access the to-​New Street trains by passing the ticket booth and navigating a wide but steep stairwell. For Lichfield, you access the platform by ramp.
Those amount to exits too, but you can access and leave both platforms away from Station road and further into the residential streets towards Jockey Road. And that’s the thing, despite the name of this station, this is still essentially a central Sutton stop, the best point by which to access Boldmere or Beeches Walk’s restaurants and pub, perhaps even Empire cinema. If you want Wylde Green’s commercial strip running alongside Birmingham Road, or even Penns Lane, Chester Road is the station to use.
There is parking at Wylde Green railway station, and it has been expanded within the last couple of years, but there remain better park and ride options at stations along the Sutton stretch of the Cross-​City Line, particularly Four Oaks.
Don’t expect a shop or vending machine either. This is simply about getting you from A to B.

Down the Cross City line from Sutton Coldfield, or up from Chester Road if you’re heading that way (actually, a trainspotter would say you were heading up from Sutton and down from Chester Road, but that’s a different kettle of anoraks) is Wylde Green — a sleepy little station in a leafy little part of town. The station is effectively nothing more than a place to pick up and drop passengers off and has no facilities other than a ticket office and a whole heap of stairs to get up the platform (a right bugger if the train’s just pulling in as you’re buying your ticket!) and is a very modern metal and concrete construction with very long platforms. One upside to the place is that you can walk off the Sutton end of both platforms and walk along a path which leads you up onto Highbridge Road, which makes access pretty easy from all directions.