Rugeley Trent Valley railway station

The station is served by trains operated by West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway on the Chase Line from Birmingham New Street.[4]

In the May 2023 timetable, Rugeley Trent Valley is served by half-hourly services on the Chase Line calling at all local stations to Walsall followed by Tame Bridge Parkway and Birmingham New Street before running to terminate at Birmingham International.[5] On matchdays at Bescot Stadium and Villa Park services often make additional calls at Bescot Stadium, Aston and Witton. Services run hourly on Sundays.

From 2008 to 2019 these ran half-hourly during peak times and hourly during off peak times on weekdays, half-hourly on Saturdays and hourly on Sundays.[6] These services used to be extended to terminate at Stafford, but as of the December 2008 timetable changes these services were all been cut back to terminate at Rugeley Trent Valley.

The Chase Line saw a major timetable reorganisation in May 2019, coinciding the completion of electrification. Services ran half-hourly throughout the day, and initially trains alternated in terminating at Birmingham International and London Euston via Birmingham, Coventry, Northampton and Milton Keynes.[7]

The service was simplified by 2021, with all Chase line services to and from Rugeley Trent Valley being West Midlands Railway services terminating at Birmingham New Street, calling at all stations north of and including Walsall, but only stopping at Tame Bridge Parkway south of there. The frequency remained at 2tph on Mondays to Saturdays, while on Sundays services ran hourly.[8]

London Northwestern Railway operates an hourly service northbound to Crewe via Stafford and southbound to Euston via Lichfield Trent Valley, Nuneaton and Rugby using the Trent Valley Line.[9] Most services on this route run fast between Rugby and Milton Keynes Central with occasional stops at Northampton in the peak.

Intercity Avanti West Coast services between London Euston and North West England do not call at Rugeley Trent Valley, due to the low passenger numbers compared to other Trent Valley stations as well as short platforms which do not accommodate the tilting Class 390 Pendolino or Class 221 Super Voyager trains Avanti West Coast operate.