page_title: Chase Line
section_title: Services
hierarchical_section_title: Chase Line / Services
caption_attribution_description: I went to Perry Barr Station in Perry Barr, before heading towards Perry Park. It is a few days before the Aviva Birmingham Grand Prix, and so I wanted to check out the park before the event (I wont be in Birmingham the day the Diamond League comes to Perry Barr). Perry Barr is on the Chase Line, and it heads towards Walsall and Rugely. The current station building dates to the 1960s. London Midland Class 323 trains at Perry Barr. My Class 323 train to Birmingham New Street. It was heading for Wolverhampton. 323202
context_page_description: The Chase Line is a suburban railway line in the West Midlands region of England. It runs from its southern terminus, Birmingham New Street, to Walsall, and then Rugeley in Staffordshire, where it joins the Trent Valley Line. The name of the line refers to Cannock Chase which it runs through at its northern end.
  Part of the line, between Birmingham and Walsall, has been electrified since the 1960s; work to electrify the remaining 15 mile stretch of line between Walsall and Rugeley, was completed in December 2018.
context_section_description: Monday to Saturday daytime there are four trains per hour from Birmingham New Street to Walsall. Two per hour run via Aston and call at all stations, the other two per hour run direct via Soho and call at Tame Bridge Parkway and Walsall. Two of these per-hour continue to Rugeley Trent Valley during the day, dropping to one in the late evenings.  
  There is also a 6am service from Wolverhampton to Rugeley Trent Valley but this is only one way. It runs the entire Birmingham to Walsall section calling at all stations them onto the Chase Line.
  As of May 2019, following the electrification of the line north of Walsall, West Midlands Trains began operating 2tph (Mon-Sat) from Rugeley Trent Valley to Birmingham International with 1tph continuing to Northampton or London Euston. On Sundays, all services from Rugeley terminate at Coventry. Services north of Walsall are formed by Class 350 EMUs.
  Class 323 EMUs are used for some of the half hourly services between Walsall and Wolverhampton via Birmingham New Street.
caption: A Class 323 calls at Perry Barr.
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