Small Heath train station

You can reach 46 stations directly from Small Heath on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Birmingham Moor Street, with 98 trains a day.

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• 46 direct destinations
• 1,323rd busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• 5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Small Heath

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 Small Heath

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

Freight through Small Heath station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Small Heath station on 937 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 178 paths on the Wednesday, 84 paths on the Saturday and 15 paths on the Sunday. 103 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 00:00 to 01:00 on the Tuesday, with 15 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 Small Heath station is

224,446 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,323rd busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Small Heath and Birmingham Moor Street than any other pair: 142,076 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

There is no Sunday service from Small Heath. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.

Nearest other stations

• Bordesley 1.0 miles
• Tyseley 1.1 miles
• Adderley Park 1.3 miles
• Spring Road 1.7 miles
• Birmingham Moor Street 1.7 miles

Closed stations nearby

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

• Camp Hill · 1.0 miles
• Brighton Road · 1.1 miles
• Lawley Street · 1.5 miles
• Lawley Street · 1.5 miles
• Curzon Street · 1.7 miles
• Bloomsbury and Nechells closed 1869 · 2.0 miles

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Facilities at Small Heath station

Small Heath is staffed part time, with step-free access to no part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:00 to 10:00 · at weekends: closed

Cycle parking: 4 spaces (stands).

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

Getting to Small Heath station

Small Heath 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), 3.1 miles north.

5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Poets Corner.

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

Small Heath 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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