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{{Short description|Railway station and tram stop in Birmingham, England}}{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2018}}
{{Infobox station
| name                = Jewellery Quarter
| symbol_location     = gb
| symbol              = rail
| symbol2             = birmingham
| image               = Jewellery_Quarter_railway_station_train_and_tram_-_Birmingham_-_2005-10-14.jpg
| caption             = Train and tram at Jewellery Quarter station in 2005
| borough             = [[Jewellery Quarter]], [[Birmingham]]
| country             = England
| coordinates         = {{coord|52.4897|-1.9136|type:railwaystation_region:GB_scale:10000|display=inline,title}}
| grid_name           = [[Ordnance Survey National Grid|Grid reference]]
| grid_position       = {{gbmapscaled|SP059879|25|SP059879}}
| manager             = [[West Midlands Trains]]
| platforms           = 2
| code                = JEQ
| zone                = 1
| classification      = [[United Kingdom railway station categories|DfT category]] E
| transit_authority   = [[Transport for West Midlands]]
| years               = 1995
| events              = Opened
| mpassengers =
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2019/20 |passengers={{increase}} 0.539 million}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2020/21 |passengers={{decrease}} 0.120 million}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2021/22 |passengers={{increase}} 0.284 million}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2022/23 |passengers={{increase}} 0.321 million}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2023/24 |passengers={{increase}} 0.399 million}}

| footnotes           = Passenger statistics from the [[Office of Rail and Road]]
|mapframe=yes
|mapframe-zoom = 13
}}
{{Infobox station
| name = Jewellery Quarter
| symbol_location = birmingham
| symbol_location2 = gb
| symbol2 = 
| symbol = birmingham
| type = [[West Midlands Metro]] tram stop
| image = Jewellery Quarter station tram platforms.JPG
| alt = 
| caption = West Midlands Metro platforms, looking towards Birmingham.
| address = [[Jewellery Quarter]]
| borough = [[Birmingham]]
| country = England
| line = Line 1 (Edgbaston Village&nbsp;– Wolverhampton St George's/Wolverhampton Station)
| platforms = 2
| opened = 31 May 1999
| closed = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} -->
| passengers = Approx. 900 daily<ref>{{cite web|title=2016 West Midlands Travel Trends Covering Report|url=https://westmidlandscombinedauthority.org.uk/media/1512/papers-transport-delivery-committee-7-november-2016.pdf|publisher=[[West Midlands Combined Authority]]|access-date=23 January 2017|pages=39|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202011135/https://westmidlandscombinedauthority.org.uk/media/1512/papers-transport-delivery-committee-7-november-2016.pdf|archive-date=2 February 2017}}</ref>
| pass_year = 2015/16
}}

'''Jewellery Quarter station''' is a combined [[railway station]] and [[tram stop]], situated in the [[Jewellery Quarter]] of [[Birmingham]], [[England]].  The station is served by [[West Midlands Trains]] (who operate the station), [[Chiltern Railways]], and [[West Midlands Metro]].

The station is set at the mouth of [[Hockley Tunnels|Hockley No 2 Tunnel]] below the elevation of its road-level access point on Vyse Street; stairs and a lift are provided.

==History==
Jewellery Quarter station was opened in 1995, as part of the "[[Jewellery Line]]" project which saw the re-introduction of cross-city services via [[Birmingham Snow Hill railway station|Birmingham Snow Hill]]. Midland Metro services commenced in 1999, when its first (and so far only) line from Birmingham to [[Wolverhampton]] opened.<ref name="RABJQ">{{cite web|title=Jewellery Quarter Station 1995 - Present|url=http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/Stations/jewellery_quarter.php|publisher=Rail Around Birmingham & the West Midlands|access-date=21 January 2017|archive-date=11 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111170503/http://railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/Stations/jewellery_quarter.php|url-status=live}}</ref>

No previous station had existed at this site, however the area was historically served by [[Hockley (Birmingham) railway station|Hockley station]], located a short distance west, which had been opened by the [[Great Western Railway]] in 1854, and was closed with the line in 1972.<ref name="RABJQ"/>

==Facilities==
The station has no car park, but ten cycle storage spaces are available.<ref>[http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/JEQ/details.html Jewellery Quarter station facilities] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111071652/http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/JEQ/details.html |date=11 January 2014 }} ''National Rail Enquiries''</ref> The station has a ticket office, but this has limited opening hours; a self-service ticket machine is provided for use when the ticket hall is closed and for collecting pre-paid tickets.  Train running information is offered via automated announcements, CIS displays, timetable posters and customer help points on each side.

Outside the station entrance on Vyse Street is a sculpture called "Clockwork" by [[Mark Renn]], which dates from 2004. There is also a [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[cast iron]] public urinal, dating from around 1880, which is now disused but is [[grade II listed]].<ref>{{NHLE |desc=PUBLIC CONVENIENCE OPPOSITE NUMBER 90 TO 94 (CONSECUTIVE) |num=1076115 |access-date=18 September 2021 }}</ref>
<gallery mode="packed">
File:Jewellery Quarter railway station Birmingham, geograph 5669518 by Jaggery.jpg|View east from the railway platform towards station buildings. 
File:Entrance to Jewellery Quarter Station, geograph 6321038 by Philip Halling.jpg|The station frontage on Vyse Street, with to the right a grade II [[Listed building|listed]] cast-iron urinal.
File:Jewellery Quarter Station (cropped).jpg|"Clockwork" sculpture outside the station entrance.
File:Public toilet on Vyse Street, geograph 6321297 by Philip Halling.jpg|The former cast iron public urinal outside the station entrance
</gallery>

==Services==

===Train===
[[West Midlands Trains|West Midlands Railway]]:

Most services are operated by West Midlands Trains.

The Monday to Saturday off-peak service sees trains approximately every 15 minutes in each direction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/travel-information/journey-planning/timetables?station=Jewellery%20Quarter&crs=JEQ|title=Train timetables and schedules {{!}} Jewellery Quarter|website=West Midlands Railway|access-date=26 May 2023|archive-date=26 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526151848/https://www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/travel-information/journey-planning/timetables?station=Jewellery%20Quarter&crs=JEQ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/media/3840/download?inline|title=Train times {{!}} Snow Hill Lines - Worcester to Birmingham Snow Hill, Solihull and Stratford upon Avon {{!}} 21 May until 9 December 2023|website=West Midlands Railway|access-date=26 May 2023|archive-date=22 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522115542/https://www.westmidlandsrailway.co.uk/media/3840/download?inline|url-status=live}}</ref>

Eastbound:
*4 trains per hour (tph) to {{rws|Birmingham Snow Hill}} and {{rws|Birmingham Moor Street}}
**2tph to {{rws|Whitlocks End}} via {{rws|Shirley|England}}
***of which one continues to {{rws|Stratford-upon-Avon}} via the [[North Warwickshire Line]]

**2tph to {{rws|Dorridge}} via {{rws|Solihull}}
***of which one continues to Stratford-upon-Avon via {{rws|Lapworth}}
****Two evening weekday West Midlands Railway services continue to {{rws|Leamington Spa}}.

Westbound:
*4 trains per hour to {{rws|Kidderminster}} via {{rws|Smethwick Galton Bridge}} and {{rws|Stourbridge Junction}}:
**of which two continue to {{rws|Worcester Foregate Street}} via {{rws|Droitwich Spa}}
**Some services reverse or terminate at {{rws|Worcester Shrub Hill}}.

[[Chiltern Railways]]:

Chiltern serve the station with one nighttime service to Stourbridge Junction on weekdays only, from [[Marylebone station|London Marylebone]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timetables.chilternrailways.co.uk/#/timetables/2087/Table%202|title=Timetable {{!}} 22 May 2023 - 8 December 2023: London to High Wycombe, Bicester, Oxford, Banbury, Leamington Spa, Stratford-upon-Avon and Birmingham|website=Chiltern Railways|access-date=26 May 2023|archive-date=22 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522141338/https://timetables.chilternrailways.co.uk/#/timetables/2087/Table%202|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Tram===
On Mondays to Fridays, [[West Midlands Metro]] services in each direction between Edgbaston Village and Wolverhampton St George's/Wolverhampton Station run at six to eight-minute intervals during the day, and at fifteen-minute intervals during the evenings and on Sundays. They run at eight minute intervals on Saturdays.<ref>{{cite web|title=Midland Metro timetable|url=https://journeyplanner.networkwestmidlands.com/Timetables/Download/cen_01MM1_%20_H_y11_15/15/West%20Midlands%20Metro_MM1/False?_ga=2.213757213.808157522.1562880704-355056203.1562880704|publisher=Network West Midlands|accessdate=11 July 2019}}</ref>

{{S-start|noclear=yes}}
{{s-rail|title=MIDM}}
{{tram line|previous=[[Soho Benson Road tram stop|Soho Benson Road]]|route=Line 1|next=[[St Paul's tram stop|St Paul's]]|col={{Midland-Metro-colour|Line 1}} }}
{{rail insert}}
{{rail line two routes|previous=[[The Hawthorns station|The Hawthorns]]|next=[[Birmingham Snow Hill railway station|Birmingham Snow Hill]]|route1=[[West Midlands Trains|West Midlands Railway]]<br /><small>[[Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster line|Birmingham-Worcester via Kidderminster]]</small> |col1={{WMT colour}}|route2=[[Chiltern Railways]]<br /><small>[[Chiltern Main Line|London-Kidderminster]]</small>|col2={{Chiltern colour}}}}
{{s-end}}

==See also==
*[[Transport in Birmingham]]
*[[List of Midland Metro stations]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book|title=Worcester to Birmingham|first1=Vic|last1=Mitchell|first2=Keith|last2=Smith|at=figs. 110-111|publisher=Middleton Press|year=2007|isbn=9781904474975|oclc=263292710}}

==External links==
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*[http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/Stations/jewellery_quarter.php Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Jewellery Quarter railway station]

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{{Railway Stations served by Chiltern Railways}}
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