Acocks Green Station
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Acocks Green Station
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 13 Apr 2013
Acocks Green station was opened on the Great Western Railway's main line in 1852 in what must then have been a very rural area. The suburb has since developed as a mixed area, a buffer between inner city Sparkbrook and leafy Solihull. Today the station, whose entrance on Sherbourne Road is seen here, has a frequent service of trains running from Snow Hill and Moor Street. The bus stop is served by buses on Birmingham's outer circle no 11 route (the 'c' suffix indicating that this is in the clockwise direction), claimed to be the longest urban bus route in Europe at 27 miles.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.449682
Longitude
-1.819857