Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway railway station


Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway is a parkway railway station on the northern outskirts of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. It is on the North Warwickshire Line, next to the A46 road. The station is served by West Midlands Trains and Chiltern Railways.
The station uses the Park and Ride facilities at Bishopton, whose car park has spaces for 725 vehicles, thus saving passengers from driving into central Stratford to get the train from the main Stratford-upon-Avon railway station. It has two platforms on the double-track line. Each platform is long with another stopping allowance to accommodate trains with up to six coaches. The platforms are linked by a DDA-compliant footbridge with ramps.

History

The station was opened on 19 May 2013. It had been planned to open in December 2013, but was completed seven months ahead of schedule. Construction work started on 17 October 2012.
The station was projected to cost £8.8 million. In July 2011 the Department for Transport agreed to contribute £5 million from its Local Sustainable Transport Fund. In September 2011 Warwickshire County Council agreed to contribute £1.8 million. In January 2012 Warwickshire County Council announced that Mott MacDonald had been appointed to produce the GRIP 4 outline design of the parkway station by early summer 2012.

Services

West Midlands Trains run services southbound to, and northbound to, one running via and the other via. Most of these services continue to on weekdays, and or on weekends. There are no services to via on Sundays, and on weekdays at night only the last service of the day stops at, with all other services running via.
Chiltern Railways run services to via, although no services continue to outside off-peak hours; instead, they terminate at or. There no services which continue to on weekends.