There are seventy railway stations in the West Midlands and these comprise the full spectrum from busy city-centre main-line stations to commuter and suburban stations and even rural stops. The metropolitan county includes Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Solihull, Walsall and the Black Country and the oldest stations date back to the early years of Victorian railway building, through stations closed and reopened to new stations built in the last decade, but all serve today’s railway network. In this book railway photographer Kris Davies explores the history, architecture, layout and present-day operations of all these stations, showing the great variety and interest of the railway scene in the West Midlands.

This photographic survey of today’s railway stations in the West Midlands will appeal to all those with an interest in the history of the railways in this region as well as the current railway scene.