Penkridge train station

You can reach 13 stations directly from Penkridge on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Birmingham New Street, with 61 trains a day.

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• 13 direct destinations
• 1,171st busiest in Britain
• Unstaffed
• Step-free throughout
• 20 parking spaces

Direct trains from Penkridge

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

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Lines serving Penkridge

Penkridge is on the Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Penkridge station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Penkridge station on 484 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 77 paths on the Wednesday, 93 paths on the Saturday and 7 paths on the Sunday. 67 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 02:00 to 03:00 on the Monday, 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 Penkridge station is

292,594 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,171st busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Penkridge and Birmingham New Street than any other pair: 79,450 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.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Penkridge gains 6 destinations including Alsager, Tame Bridge Parkway, Longport, Stone, Kidsgrove, Stoke-on-Trent.

Nearest other stations

• Cannock 4.8 miles
• Hednesford 5.0 miles
• Stafford 5.5 miles
• Landywood 6.2 miles
• Bilbrook 7.5 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Gailey · 2.2 miles
• Four Ashes · 3.5 miles

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Facilities at Penkridge station

Penkridge is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.

Parking at Penkridge station

• Station Car Park 20 spaces, 4 accessible
  free

Cycle parking: 20 spaces (stands).

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

Getting to Penkridge station

Penkridge station is in South Staffordshire, West Midlands, and is run by West Midlands Trains (West Midlands Railway).

The nearest motorway junction is M6 J12 (Gailey Interchange), 2.1 miles south.

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

Penkridge 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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