Witton Railway Station

One of my local stations.
No where to purchase a proper ticket except on «Match» day. I avoid Witton like the plague when Aston Villa are playing home so I will never see this ticket office open.
There’s a permit to travel machine working on the Walsall platform, it’s set to GMT all year round but I suppose it’s better than the broken one the Birmingham platform.
Waiting rooms are also only open on match day!
I presume that customers were the rarest thing when this station had staff but now there’s just the live update board to keep you company.
Bonus however is 20p for a single to Walsall using permit to travel since no one checked my ticket on the train.
I got the bus back to Birmingham.

Situated five minutes walk away from the North Stand end of Villa Park (making it closer than Aston station but one stop further away from New Street and no good if travelling towards Erdington or Sutton Coldfield), Witton Station is essentially little more than a functional shell of a station. Apart from waiting rooms on both platforms (and some extra covered benches on the Walsall-​bound platform), Witton is just a place to wait for a train home if you’ve been down the Villa. At least, unlike a lot of other stations of roughly this age, the platforms have a fair bit of cover so that if it’s raining, as it was when I was there yesterday, you’re kept dry if not warm.
Those needing a connection take note that the notorious 11 bus runs past the station entrance (well, it runs everywhere doesn’t it?), as does the number 7.