Olton train station

You can reach 34 stations directly from Olton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Acocks Green, with 68 trains a day.

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• 34 direct destinations
• 905th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free throughout
• 103 parking spaces
• 8 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Olton

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

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Lines serving Olton

Olton is on the Chiltern Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Olton station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Olton station on 459 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 86 paths on the Wednesday, 48 paths on the Saturday and 8 paths on the Sunday. 42 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 16:00 to 17:00 on the Friday, 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 Olton station is

462,908 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 905th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Olton and Birmingham Moor Street than any other pair: 262,754 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: 21 stations instead of 34, a drop of about 38%. Saturday runs to 34.

Nearest other stations

• Acocks Green 1.0 miles
• Spring Road 1.4 miles
• Hall Green 1.7 miles
• Solihull 1.8 miles
• Tyseley 1.8 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Brighton Road · 3.5 miles
• Camp Hill · 3.7 miles
• Birmingham Interchange · 4.2 miles
• Lawley Street · 4.3 miles
• Lawley Street · 4.4 miles
• Saltley · 4.5 miles

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Facilities at Olton station

Olton is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday: 07:00 to 15:00 · Tuesday: 07:00 to 13:00, 17:00 to 19:00 · Friday: 07:00 to 20:00 · Saturday: 08:00 to 20:00 · Sunday: 11:00 to 13:00

Waiting room

Parking at Olton station

• Station Car Park 103 spaces, 5 accessible
  free

Cycle parking: 10 spaces (sheltered, stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 September 2026.

Getting to Olton station

Olton station is in Solihull, West Midlands, and is run by West Midlands Trains (West Midlands Railway).

The nearest motorway junction is M42 J5 (Copt Hill Interchange), 3.2 miles south-east.

8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Olton Station.

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

Olton 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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