Smethwick Rolfe Street train station
You can reach 22 stations directly from Smethwick Rolfe Street on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Birmingham New Street, with 72 trains a day.
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Smethwick Rolfe Street is the nearest station for postcodes in B66, B67. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Smethwick Rolfe Street
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham New Street | 72 | 71 | 33 |
| Coseley | 72 | 71 | 33 |
| Dudley Port | 72 | 71 | 33 |
| Sandwell and Dudley | 72 | 71 | 33 |
| Smethwick Galton Bridge | 72 | 71 | 33 |
| Tipton | 72 | 71 | 33 |
| Wolverhampton | 72 | 71 | 33 |
| Aston | 65 | 68 | 30 |
| Bescot Stadium | 66 | 68 | 30 |
| Duddeston | 66 | 68 | 30 |
| Hamstead | 66 | 68 | 30 |
| Perry Barr | 66 | 68 | 30 |
| Tame Bridge Parkway | 66 | 68 | 30 |
| Walsall | 66 | 68 | 30 |
| Witton | 66 | 68 | 30 |
| Bloxwich | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Bloxwich North | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Cannock | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Hednesford | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Landywood | 4 | 4 | 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 Smethwick Rolfe Street
Smethwick Rolfe Street is on the Rugby Birmingham and Stafford Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Smethwick Rolfe Street station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Smethwick Rolfe Street station on 63 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 13 paths on the Wednesday, 5 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 7 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 04:00 to 05:00 on the Tuesday, with 4 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 Smethwick Rolfe Street station is
403,964 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 977th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 27 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Smethwick Rolfe Street and Birmingham New Street than any other pair: 290,420 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
- Smethwick Galton Bridge 0.6 miles
- The Hawthorns 0.7 miles
- Langley Green 1.5 miles
- Sandwell and Dudley 2.0 miles
- Jewellery Quarter 2.4 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Smethwick Rolfe Street, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Soho · 0.5 miles
- Handsworth and Smethwick · 0.8 miles
- Spon Lane · 1.1 miles
- Rood End · 1.3 miles
- Winson Green · 1.4 miles
- Rotton Park Road closed 1934 · 1.5 miles
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Facilities at Smethwick Rolfe Street station
Smethwick Rolfe Street is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:00 to 18:00 · Saturday: 08:00 to 17:00 · Sunday: closed
Cycle parking: 4 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 10 September 2026.
Getting to Smethwick Rolfe Street station
Smethwick Rolfe Street station is in Sandwell, West Midlands, and is run by West Midlands Trains (West Midlands Railway).
The nearest motorway junction is M5 J1 (West Bromwich Interchange), 0.9 miles north.
8 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Rolfe St Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Smethwick Rolfe Street 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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