| The Lakes | |
| Symbol Location: | gb |
| Symbol: | rail |
| Borough: | Earlswood Lakes, Stratford-on-Avon |
| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 52.3591°N -1.8448°W |
| Grid Name: | Grid reference |
| Manager: | West Midlands Railway |
| Platforms: | 2 |
| Code: | TLK |
| Classification: | DfT category F2 |
| Opened: | 3 June 1935 |
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
The Lakes is a railway station located on the North Warwickshire Line in the north of Stratford-on-Avon District in Warwickshire, England. The nearest settlement is the village of Earlswood.
Opened by the Great Western Railway as The Lakes Halt on 3 June 1935. The station was built to serve the nearby Earlswood Lakes, which were a popular destination for daytrippers. As it was only designed to cater for local traffic, it was built with relatively short platforms, being only long.[1]
The service in each direction between Birmingham and Stratford runs hourly (including Sundays) with most northbound services running through to . Until the May 2023 timetable change it was a request stop, meaning passengers wishing to board a train here needed to signal their intent to board to the driver; those wishing to alight needing to inform the train conductor.[2] In addition, due to the short length of the platforms, passengers boarding or alighting here must only do so through the front carriage.[3] All services are operated by West Midlands Railway.[4] [5]