Wilnecote railway station is a railway station serving the town of Fazeley and suburb of Wilnecote in Staffordshire, England. It is 1.5 miles (2 km) south of Tamworth town centre. The station is situated beneath a bridge which carries the former A5 Watling Street.

History

It was opened in 1842 by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway as Wilnecote and Fazeley, the name being shortened in 1904 to just Wilnecote. In 1889, John William Leader, a corn merchant of Tamworth was killed at the station when crossing the tracks he was struck by an express from Derby.

Stationmasters

In 1961 Brian A. Martin was appointed station master a few months after his twentieth birthday and was at the time the youngest station master on British Railways.

Services

Wilnecote is served by hourly CrossCountry services southbound to Cardiff Central via Birmingham New Street, Cheltenham Spa, Gloucester and Newport and northbound Nottingham via Derby, the first two trains of the day to each of Cardiff and Nottingham start from New Street. West Midlands Trains manage the station but do not provide any train services here.