Aston train station

You can reach 44 stations directly from Aston on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Birmingham New Street, with 213 trains a day.

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• 44 direct destinations
• 778th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 4 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Aston

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 7 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Aston

Aston is on the Cross-City Line, the Proof House Junction and Bushbury Junction Line and the Aston and Lichfield City Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Aston station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Aston station on 215 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 25 paths on the Wednesday, 69 paths on the Saturday and 9 paths on the Sunday. 56 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 03:00 to 04:00 on the Saturday, with 9 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 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.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Aston station is

613,448 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 778th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 28,082 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Aston and Birmingham New Street than any other pair: 271,912 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.

Nearest other stations

• Witton 0.7 miles
• Duddeston 1.1 miles
• Gravelly Hill 1.1 miles
• Perry Barr 1.5 miles
• Adderley Park 1.6 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Aston, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Saltley · 0.8 miles
• Bloomsbury and Nechells closed 1869 · 0.8 miles
• Lawley Street · 1.6 miles
• Lawley Street · 1.6 miles
• Curzon Street · 1.7 miles
• Bromford Bridge · 1.8 miles

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Facilities at Aston station

Aston is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday: 07:00 to 10:30, 12:00 to 18:00 · Tuesday: 07:00 to 11:00, 12:00 to 18:00 · Friday: 07:00 to 11:00, 15:00 to 18:00 · Saturday: 11:00 to 15:00 · Sunday: closed

Waiting room

From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 September 2026.

Getting to Aston station

Aston station is in Birmingham, West Midlands, and is run by West Midlands Trains (West Midlands Railway).

The nearest motorway junction is M6 J6 (Gravelly Hill Interchange), 0.6 miles north-east.

4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Aston Station.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Aston station elsewhere

• National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
• Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
• Wikipedia the station's history
• OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from

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