The Hawthorns train station
You can reach 52 stations directly from The Hawthorns on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Birmingham Snow Hill, with 130 trains a day.
The Hawthorns is the nearest station for postcodes in B21. Check your own postcode.
- 52 direct destinations
- 1,106th busiest in Britain
- Staffed part time
- Step-free throughout
- 182 parking spaces
- 5 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from The Hawthorns
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham Snow Hill | 130 | 125 | 44 |
| Cradley Heath | 130 | 125 | 44 |
| Jewellery Quarter | 130 | 125 | 44 |
| Rowley Regis | 130 | 125 | 44 |
| Stourbridge Junction | 130 | 125 | 44 |
| Smethwick Galton Bridge | 130 | 125 | 44 |
| Kidderminster | 128 | 123 | 29 |
| Birmingham Moor Street | 124 | 122 | 43 |
| Small Heath | 93 | 94 | 0 |
| Tyseley | 92 | 95 | 20 |
| Hagley | 80 | 66 | 29 |
| Langley Green | 73 | 67 | 16 |
| Lye | 73 | 67 | 16 |
| Old Hill | 73 | 67 | 16 |
| Blakedown | 70 | 66 | 12 |
| Droitwich Spa | 70 | 67 | 29 |
| Dorridge | 65 | 63 | 16 |
| Solihull | 65 | 63 | 16 |
| Acocks Green | 64 | 63 | 16 |
| Olton | 64 | 63 | 16 |
| Widney Manor | 64 | 63 | 16 |
| Worcester Foregate Street | 60 | 56 | 19 |
| Hall Green | 59 | 59 | 21 |
| Spring Road | 59 | 59 | 21 |
| Shirley | 59 | 59 | 21 |
| Whitlocks End | 59 | 59 | 21 |
| Yardley Wood | 59 | 59 | 21 |
| Stratford-upon-Avon | 58 | 54 | 20 |
| Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway | 58 | 54 | 20 |
| Hartlebury | 39 | 37 | 12 |
| Worcester Shrub Hill | 38 | 35 | 16 |
| Wilmcote | 37 | 31 | 20 |
| Danzey | 32 | 31 | 0 |
| Earlswood | 32 | 31 | 20 |
| Henley-in-Arden | 32 | 31 | 20 |
| The Lakes | 32 | 31 | 20 |
| Wood End | 32 | 31 | 0 |
| Wootton Wawen | 32 | 31 | 20 |
| Wythall | 32 | 31 | 20 |
| Lapworth | 30 | 23 | 0 |
and 12 more stations, each served less often.
How busy The Hawthorns station is
334,428 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,106th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between The Hawthorns and Birmingham Snow Hill than any other pair: 83,310 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: 37 stations instead of 52, a drop of about 29%. Saturday runs to 47.
Nearest other stations
- Smethwick Rolfe Street 0.7 miles
- Smethwick Galton Bridge 0.7 miles
- Langley Green 1.9 miles
- Sandwell and Dudley 2.0 miles
- Hamstead 2.3 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of The Hawthorns, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Handsworth and Smethwick · 0.6 miles
- Soho · 0.7 miles
- Spon Lane · 1.1 miles
- West Bromwich · 1.5 miles
- Rood End · 1.5 miles
- Soho and Winson Green · 1.6 miles
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Facilities at The Hawthorns station
The Hawthorns is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday: 07:00 to 13:00 · Friday: 07:00 to 17:00 · Saturday: 09:00 to 16:00 · Sunday: closed
Toilets
Parking at The Hawthorns station
- Station Car Park 182 spaces, 12 accessible
free
Cycle parking: 20 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 4 September 2026.
Getting to The Hawthorns station
The Hawthorns 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), 0.6 miles west.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being The Hawthorns Metro.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
The Hawthorns 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