The Aston and Lichfield City Line
The Aston and Lichfield City Line runs for 8.2 miles between Aston and Blake Street, serving 9 stations, with a top line speed of 60 mph.
See the Aston and Lichfield City Line on the live map
The map draws the line on its own, names every station along it, and shows the trains running on it right now.
The line in numbers
| Length | 8.2 miles end to end |
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| Track | about 8 miles, counting every running line |
| Stations | 9 |
| Top line speed | 60 mph |
| Passengers a year | 4.9 million entries and exits across its stations |
| Engineer's Line Reference | ALC1, ALC2 |
Stations on this line
- Aston613,448 a year
- Gravelly Hill390,286 a year
- Erdington481,364 a year
- Chester Road658,658 a year
- Wylde Green520,686 a year
- Sutton Coldfield1.0 million a year
- Four Oaks701,024 a year
- Butlers Lane193,930 a year
- Blake Street344,892 a year
The busiest station on the line is Sutton Coldfield, 1.0 million entries and exits a year and 518th busiest in Britain.
Freight on this line, hour by hour
Freight is booked over the Aston and Lichfield City Line on 11 paths in the week beginning 21 September 2026: 2 paths on the Wednesday, 1 path on the Saturday and 1 path on the Sunday. 6 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 21 September 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
Lines it meets
Cross-City Line, Proof House Junction and Bushbury Junction Line.
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.