page_title: Acocks Green
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Acocks Green / Transport
caption_attribution_description: English: Acock's Green Railway Station, Birmingham
context_page_description: Acocks Green is an area and ward of southeast Birmingham, England. It is named after the Acock family, who built a large house there in 1370. Acocks Green is one of four wards making up Yardley formal district. It is occasionally spelled "Acock's Green". It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.
  Stockfield was once a separate village located in the north of the ward. It merged with Acocks after housing developments during the 20th century. The ward now covers an area 4.773 square kilometres, including the Edenbridge Road Estate, Gospel Estate, Pemberley Road Flats, Stockfield Estate, part of the Tyseley Estate and the Yarnfield Estate. The ward covers parts of the B27 and B11 postcode areas.
context_section_description: Acocks Green has very good transport links to Birmingham city centre and Solihull. Birmingham's Moor Street and Snow Hill, and Solihull stations can both be reached in under ten minutes by train from Acocks Green railway station while Spring Road railway station is on the Stratford-Upon-Avon line, and also goes to Moor Street and Snow Hill.
  Many bus routes are operated by National Express West Midlands' Acocks Green Bus Garage, located on Fox Hollies Road, including the Outer Circle (11A/11C), which is the longest urban bus route in any European city at 27 miles long. Routes that serve Acocks Green are:
  Service 1 (Five Ways - Acocks Green via Moseley)
  Service 4 (Birmingham - Solihull Station via Acocks Green)
  Service 4A (Birmingham - Gospel Oak via Acocks Green)
  Service 1A (QE Hospital - Acocks Green via Moseley)
  Service 11A/C (Birmingham Outer Circle)
  Service 30 (Acocks Green - Solihull Station via Olton)
  Service 31 (Birmingham - Solihull via Sparkhill & Acocks Green)
  Service 36 (Heartlands Hospital - Greet, via Stechford & Tyseley)
  Service 96 (Acocks Green - Sheldon via Olton)
  Service 99 (Acocks Green - Lea Village via Lyndon, Sheldon & Garretts Green)
  The area can become congested and there have been calls for a bypass to ease pressure on the roads. Businesses in the shopping area have opposed the ideas as they have concerns about loss of passing trade and residents do not want increases in traffic past their houses. Another idea which has been proposed in recent years to resolve some of the problems of congestion in the centre, whilst also making the area more pedestrian friendly, is to introduce a type of high street design known as Shared Space.
caption: Acocks Green railway station
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