The Anonymous Widower

Redditch Station

Redditch station is a small station, at the end of the mainly single-track Redditch Branch of the Cross-City Line in Birmingham.

I had hoped to find a cafe close, but there was nothing obvious, so I got back on the Class 323 Train and returned to Birmingham.

Redditch doesn’t quite get the service of say West Croydon on the Overground of four five-car trains an hour, but it does get three three-car trains every hour, which is better than many places in the UK and the wider world.

I would think that service levels greater than this would need another platform and complete doubling of the branch to Barnt Green. This Google Map shows that there is little space for another platform.

Redditch Station

As the post about Bromsgrove station showed, the Cross-City Line is adding four much-needed platforms at Bromsrove, just a few miles away.

So could we be seeing three trains an hour to each destination?

But I just get the feeling that some four-car trains might be needed after one trip in the peak.

August 6, 2015 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Birmingham, Cross-City Line, Reddith Station, Trains