Lye | |
Symbol Location: | gb |
Symbol: | rail |
Borough: | Lye, Dudley |
Country: | England |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Manager: | West Midlands Trains |
Platforms: | 2 |
Code: | LYE |
Zone: | 5 |
Classification: | DfT category E |
Transit Authority: | Transport for West Midlands |
Opened: | 1863 |
Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
Lye railway station serves the Lye area of Stourbridge, in the West Midlands of England. The station is managed by West Midlands Trains, who provide the majority of train services; Chiltern Railways also operate a small number of trains. It is situated on the Birmingham-Stourbridge line.
Lye station was opened in 1863 by the Stourbridge Railway, on their line from Stourbridge Junction to . This was later taken over by the Great Western Railway, who incorporated it into their line to Birmingham.
Lye railway station has the joint-shortest name (Lye) in the United Kingdom.
The ticket office is no longer open, however there are ticket machines on the station platform.[1]
The typical Monday-Saturday daytime service is a West Midlands Railway train every 30 minutes. Services run between or via and with 1 train per hour extending to . Trains run via or terminate at, some services run to or in the weekday evenings. On Sundays, trains are hourly.[2] [3]
There are additional services at peak times, including one Chiltern Railways service to Stourbridge Junction at weekday nighttime only, from London Marylebone. There is no return service from Lye.[4]