Cross-City Line

Cross-City Line
London Midland Class 323 arriving at Birmingham New Street in 2009
Overview
Status	Operational
Owner	Network Rail
Locale	West Midlands
Termini	Lichfield Trent Valley Redditch, Bromsgrove
Stations	25
Service
Type	Heavy rail, Suburban rail
System	National Rail
Operator(s)	West Midlands Railway
Depot(s)	Soho
Rolling stock	Class 323 Class 730[1]
History
Opened	1978
Technical
Line length	32 mi (51 km)
Number of tracks	2 (Lichfield – Bromsgrove) 1 (Barnt Green – Redditch)
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Electrification	25 kV AC OHLE
Route map

v t e Cross-City Line
freight line to Burton-on-Trent Lichfield Trent Valley for West Coast Main Line Lichfield City M6 Toll Anglesea Sidings freight terminal South Staffordshire line to Walsall Shenstone Limit of TfWM area Blake Street Butlers Lane Four Oaks Sutton Park line Sutton Coldfield tunnel Sutton Coldfield Wylde Green Chester Road Erdington Gravelly Hill M6 'Spaghetti Junction' Chase Line to Walsall Aston to Birmingham International Windsor Street Goods Duddeston Cross Country Route and Birmingham–Peterborough line Rugby–Birmingham–Stafford line to Birmingham International Camp Hill line Curzon Street Birmingham New Street Rugby–Birmingham–Stafford line to Wolverhampton Central Goods Granville Street Five Ways Church Road Church Road Tunnel Somerset Road University Selly Oak Bournville Camp Hill line Kings Norton Northfield Longbridge former line to Halesowen Limit of TfWM area Barnt Green M42 Alvechurch Redditch Gloucester loop line Blackwell Lickey Incline Bromsgrove Birmingham to Worcester via Bromsgrove line Cross Country Route
TfWM free car parking Other car parking

The Cross-City Line is a suburban rail line in the West Midlands region of England. It runs for 32 mi (51 km) from Redditch and Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, its two southern termini, to Lichfield, Staffordshire, its northern terminus, via Birmingham New Street, connecting the suburbs of Birmingham in between. Services are operated by West Midlands Trains.

Cross-City Line services began in 1978, as a project of the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive (WMPTE) to improve local rail services. It made use of pre-existing railways lines, which previously did not have any through services. Services were extended to Redditch in 1980, and to Lichfield Trent Valley in 1988. The route was electrified in 1993. In 2018 services were extended to Bromsgrove, which was added as a second southern terminus.