Hamstead train station
You can reach 22 stations directly from Hamstead on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Birmingham New Street, with 73 trains a day.
Hamstead is the nearest station for postcodes in B42, B43, B44. Check your own postcode.
- 22 direct destinations
- 1,296th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free in part
- 4 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Hamstead
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham New Street | 73 | 72 | 31 |
| Bescot Stadium | 73 | 72 | 31 |
| Tame Bridge Parkway | 73 | 72 | 31 |
| Walsall | 73 | 72 | 31 |
| Aston | 69 | 71 | 31 |
| Duddeston | 72 | 71 | 31 |
| Perry Barr | 72 | 71 | 31 |
| Witton | 72 | 71 | 31 |
| Coseley | 66 | 68 | 30 |
| Dudley Port | 66 | 68 | 30 |
| Sandwell and Dudley | 66 | 68 | 30 |
| Smethwick Galton Bridge | 67 | 68 | 30 |
| Smethwick Rolfe Street | 66 | 68 | 30 |
| Tipton | 66 | 68 | 30 |
| Wolverhampton | 67 | 68 | 30 |
| Bloxwich | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Bloxwich North | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Cannock | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Hednesford | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Landywood | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Adderley Park | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Birmingham International | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Lea Hall | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Marston Green | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Stechford | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving Hamstead
Hamstead is on the Proof House Junction and Bushbury Junction Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Hamstead station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Hamstead station on 260 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 34 paths on the Wednesday, 74 paths on the Saturday and 9 paths on the Sunday. 55 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 Monday, with 10 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Hamstead station is
230,862 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,296th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Hamstead and Birmingham New Street than any other pair: 133,886 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.
Sundays
Sunday is a different railway here: 15 stations instead of 22, a drop of about 32%. Saturday runs to 25.
Nearest other stations
- Perry Barr 1.5 miles
- Witton 2.3 miles
- The Hawthorns 2.3 miles
- Tame Bridge Parkway 2.5 miles
- Jewellery Quarter 2.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Hamstead, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Handsworth Wood · 1.3 miles
- Newton Road · 1.6 miles
- Newton Road [2nd] · 1.8 miles
- Soho Road · 2.0 miles
- Handsworth and Smethwick · 2.2 miles
- Soho and Winson Green · 2.4 miles
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Facilities at Hamstead station
Hamstead is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday: 06:00 to 13:00 · Friday: 07:00 to 13:00, 15:00 to 17:00 · Saturday: 09:00 to 16:00 · Sunday: closed
Waiting room
From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 September 2026.
Getting to Hamstead station
Hamstead station is in Birmingham, West Midlands, and is run by West Midlands Trains (West Midlands Railway).
The nearest motorway junction is M6 J7 (Great Barr Interchange), 1.4 miles north.
4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Hamstead Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Hamstead 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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