Jewellery Quarter Station
The station is set at the mouth of Hockley No 2 Tunnel below the elevation of its road-level access point on Vyse Street; stairs and a lift are provided.
History
Jewellery Quarter station was opened in 1995, as part of the "Jewellery Line" project which saw the re-introduction of cross-city services via Birmingham Snow Hill. Midland Metro services commenced in 1999, when its first (and so far only) line from Birmingham to Wolverhampton opened.
No previous station had existed at this site, however the area was historically served by Hockley station, located a short distance west, which had been opened by the Great Western Railway in 1854, and was closed with the line in 1972.
Facilities
The station has no car park, but ten cycle storage spaces are available. The station has a ticket office, but this has limited opening hours; a self-service ticket machine is provided for use when the ticket hall is closed and for collecting pre-paid tickets. Train running information is offered via automated announcements, CIS displays, timetable posters and customer help points on each side.
Outside the station entrance on Vyse Street is a sculpture called "Clockwork" by Mark Renn, which dates from 2004. There is also a Victorian cast iron public urinal, dating from around 1880, which is now disused but is grade II listed.
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View east from the railway platform towards station buildings. -
The station frontage on Vyse Street, with to the right a grade II listed cast-iron urinal. -
"Clockwork" sculpture outside the station entrance. -
The former cast iron public urinal outside the station entrance
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Services
Train
Most services are operated by West Midlands Trains.
The Monday to Saturday off-peak service sees trains approximately every 15 minutes in each direction.
Eastbound:
- 4 trains per hour (tph) to Birmingham Snow Hill and Birmingham Moor Street
- 2tph to Whitlocks End via Shirley
- of which one continues to Stratford-upon-Avon via the North Warwickshire Line
- 2tph to Whitlocks End via Shirley
- 2tph to Dorridge via Solihull
- of which one continues to Stratford-upon-Avon via Lapworth
- Two evening weekday West Midlands Railway services continue to Leamington Spa.
- of which one continues to Stratford-upon-Avon via Lapworth
- 2tph to Dorridge via Solihull
Westbound:
- 4 trains per hour to Kidderminster via Smethwick Galton Bridge and Stourbridge Junction:
- of which two continue to Worcester Foregate Street via Droitwich Spa
- Some services reverse or terminate at Worcester Shrub Hill.
Chiltern serve the station with one nighttime service to Stourbridge Junction on weekdays only, from London Marylebone.
Tram
On Mondays to Fridays, West Midlands Metro services in each direction between Edgbaston Village and Wolverhampton St George's/Wolverhampton Station run at six to eight-minute intervals during the day, and at fifteen-minute intervals during the evenings and on Sundays. They run at eight minute intervals on Saturdays.
