Thousands of passenger journeys using new stations

Tens of thousands of passengers have made trips using new West Midlands railway stations in the weeks since they opened.

The stations were part of a £185m project to reinstate rail links across the region not used in decades.

Passenger journeys via three new Camp Hill line stations in Birmingham - Moseley, Kings Heath and Pineapple Road - totalled 35,100 since the sites opened on 7 April.

Meanwhile, Willenhall and Darlaston stations in Walsall borough opened on 19 March as part of the Shrewsbury to Birmingham New Street service via Wolverhampton. The stations have seen 17,000 passenger journeys.

The stations on the Camp Hill line had been closed since 1941, while passenger trains last stopped in Willenhall and Darlaston in 1965.

The data has been released by West Midlands Railway - one of several organisations that delivered the stations, including the Department for Transport, Network Rail, and Walsall and Birmingham City Councils.

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