The line to/from Aston was in the past used by a limited direct service between Walsall and Birmingham International and by Wrexham & Shropshire services between Wrexham General and London Marylebone (though not calling here) until January 2011. The direct line through to Aston is now used by limited freight services only. Platform 1 is used by services to Birmingham New Street most of which are services from Birmingham International to Walsall and Rugeley Trent Valley. Platform 2 is used by services to Birmingham International, Coventry, Northampton and London Euston. Platform 3 currently has no timetabled services. Up Walsall to Birmingham International trains formerly had a platform face of their own (platform 3), but down Birmingham International to Walsall trains used the up main platform via a facing crossover. TransPennine Express 2023. All rights reserved. Image are owned by TransPennine Express and Network Rail. Stechford has three churches. Stechford Baptist, [4] on Victoria Road, All Saints ( Anglican) on Albert Road, and Corpus Christi ( Catholic) on Albert Road. The churches hold an annual Remembrance Day service at the Five Ways War Memorial on Remembrance Sunday, early November, which is attended by about 200 people. A West Midlands Police spokesperson added: "We were called to Stechford Railway Station to assist British Transport Police in dealing with an incident on 2 September.

The power of the River Cole was harnessed in the Middle Ages by Stechford Mill which stood on the north side of the river above Stechford Bridge. First recorded as a corn mill in Politician Enoch Powell was born at Flaxley Lane, Stechford, in 1912. [3] He moved to Kings Norton in 1918 and would later go on to be a classical scholar, poet, youngest Brigadier in the British Army when he fought in the Second World War, and politician. He is best known for his Rivers of Blood speech in 1968. A large mansion was built in the mid-19th century between Coleshill Road and Stechford Lane was named Stechford Hall. However the River Cole is the boundary between Yardley, of which Stechford Two people are in hospital following an incident close to the lines at Stechford Railway Station last night, September 2. The station came to a standstill last night from approximately 5pm as emergency services raced to the scene, with at least seven response vehicles and two fire engines at the scene. was part, and the house was actually at the very west end of Castle Bromwich. Stechford Lane marks the boundary with Little Bromwich. This article should probably be included

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All of the land around the Cole is flood plain, which means that Stechford has a wide swathe of green, semi-wild vegetation. It is still possible to canoe from Stechford to Water Orton [ citation needed]. The Cole and the green area around it, are being restored through the Kingfisher Project. [5] A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "An ambulance, a paramedic officer, a MERIT trauma doctor and critical care paramedic, the Midlands Air Ambulance Critical Care Car and the Trust’s Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) were sent to the scene where, on arrival, crews found a teenage male in a serious condition. Ambulance staff provided treatment at the scene before he was conveyed on blue lights to Birmingham Children’s Hospital for further treatment.

On Sundays, there is an hourly service northbound to Rugeley and Birmingham New Street and southbound to Birmingham International with the first 4 and last 4 services of the day extending to Coventry, Northampton via Rugby or London Euston. [6] [7] [8] Stechford's history is unclear. Its oldest components are Station Road (known as Stoney Lane since Norman times) and Flaxleye Farm, first referenced in 1218. The farm itself no longer remains, however there is a farmhouse at 143 Flaxley Road, although the oldest parts of the current building cannot be older than the 17th century. The closest buildings of historical importance are St Edburgh's church and Blakesley Hall, both a stone's throw outside Stechford in Yardley. The name Stechford is apparently a reference to the Stich or Stitch, a local tributary of the River Cole, although the Stitch is now entirely under culverts. A ford over the Cole is first referenced in 1249. The name Stechford was unknown until the construction of Stechford Station in 1844 [ citation needed], and it has been conjectured [ who?] that it was simply a railway misspelling. The name Stycheforde is attested since 1400. The common misspelling Stetchford is not an acceptable variant. cook and three servants. However, ten years later the family had moved to Milverton near Leamington Spa.It may be that the house then became vacant, for in 1910 Sister Marie de St Pierre of the Tyburn Convent in London wrote to Edward Ilsley, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham hoping to In 1939 just months after the Second World War had begun, Mr C L Schramm was digging in his garden in Flaxley Road to lay the foundations of an air-raid shelter. His spade hit a metal object of