Aston railway station
Aston 
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Aston station
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| Location | |
| Place | Aston |
| Local authority | Birmingham |
| Coordinates | 52°30′14″N 1°52′19″W / 52.504°N 1.872°WCoordinates: 52°30′14″N 1°52′19″W / 52.504°N 1.872°W |
| Grid reference | SP087896 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | AST |
| Managed by | London Midland |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.445 million |
| – Interchange |
 48,244 |
| 2012/13 |
0.438 million |
| – Interchange |
46,955 |
| 2013/14 |
0.484 million |
| – Interchange |
51,631 |
| 2014/15 |
 0.484 million |
| – Interchange |
48,373 |
| 2015/16 |
0.533 million |
| – Interchange |
49,623 |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Transport for West Midlands |
| Zone | 2 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Aston from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Aston railway station serves the districts of Aston and Nechells in Birmingham, England. The passenger entrance is on Lichfield Road. The station is on the Cross-City Line and the Chase Line.
The station is situated adjacent to and above the Lichfield Road (A5127), crossed by a bridge as the railway line, part of the original Grand Junction Railway, opened in 1837, is on an embankment through what was "pastoral parkland" at the time of its construction. The line also crosses the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, just south of Lichfield Road, on a bridge which is all that remains of a longer viaduct of ten arches, described as "one of the most beautiful structures on the line of the Grand Junction".
The section of the viaduct crossing Lichfield Road, immediately south of the station, was replaced by a steel bridge in 1906.
The route of the Grand Junction Railway, sweeping in a wide arc from Perry Barr through Aston to its terminus at Vauxhall, was dictated by the refusal of James Watt the younger, the tenant of Aston Hall, to allow the railway to encroach upon Aston Park in the grounds of the Hall as planned in the Grand Junction's Act of 1833. The line was originally intended to enter Birmingham through a mile-long tunnel under the high ground on which the park is situated. In clause IV of a second Act of 1834, the Grand Junction was forbidden from
In 1846, the Grand Junction was one of several railways which were merged and incorporated into the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). Aston was opened by the LNWR in 1854 and became a junction in 1862 when a line was opened to Sutton Coldfield by the same railway.
In 1880 the LNWR opened a line from Aston to Stechford on the Birmingham to Coventry line which also gave access to the Metropolitan Carriage and Wagon Company's works (later Metro-Cammell) at Saltley, reached by a short private siding, opened in 1904, from what the LNWR termed Washwood Heath Junction at the point where the Aston-Stechford line passed over the Midland Railway from Birmingham to Derby. The new line was also used for the Wolverhampton portions of some London expresses and also to provide through carriages between Euston and Walsall.
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