Editing Sutton Coldfield (section)

== Transport ==
[[File:Sutton Town railway station.jpg|right|thumb|The former Sutton Town railway station on Midland Drive. The station opened in 1879 and closed in 1924, and is now converted to offices. The adjacent railway line is still in use by [[freight]] services only.]]
Linked by frequent and fast services from [[Sutton Coldfield railway station]] on the [[Cross-City Line]] to the centre of Birmingham, Sutton is mostly a commuter dormitory town for people who work in Birmingham. The 1955 [[Sutton Coldfield rail crash]] occurred here, when an express train entered the very tight curve through the station much faster than the speed limit of {{convert|30|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}}. The [[Sutton Park Line]] also crosses the town roughly perpendicular to the cross-city line (crossing at a point out of easy sight near the former Midland Road station), but lost its passenger services and stations in the 1964 "[[Beeching Axe]]". It retained a loading bay at the adjacent Clifton Road Royal Mail sorting office for a time, but now remains as a freight only line.

The [[Roman road]] [[Icknield Street]] cuts through [[Sutton Park, West Midlands|Sutton Park]] to the west of the town. The town is bypassed to the north by the [[M6 Toll]], the first toll motorway in the UK, accessible from Sutton by junction T2 at Minworth (co-located with the [[M42 motorway|M42]] junction), T3 and T4 (interchanging with the [[A38 road|A38]] at the south and north ends of their {{convert|5|mi|km|adj=on}} parallel run), and T5 at Shenstone. It also has easy access to the [[M6 motorway|M6]] to the South, via junctions 5 (Castle Bromwich), J6 (Gravelly Hill, or [[Gravelly Hill Interchange|"Spaghetti Junction"]]) and J7 at Great Barr; and also the [[M42 motorway|M42]] in the east, via junction 9 near Minworth.

The [[A38 road|A38]] itself used to run through the centre of the town (literally, using the since-pedestrianised line of the Parade), but now uses the dual carriageway bypass to the east. The former route of the A38 is now the [[A5127]] Lichfield Road, branching from the southern end of the Aston Expressway on the Birmingham Middleway ring road, and continues to provide a major connective route running between and on slightly altered paths through the centres of Erdington, Sutton and Lichfield.

The Parade in the town centre is the main destination and terminus for numerous [[National Express West Midlands]] bus services in and through Sutton Coldfield. Such routes as 'Sutton Lines' (X3, X4, X5, X14) to Birmingham, 77 to Walsall and 5 to West Bromwich; to name just a few routes. There is also a half-hourly service X3 to [[Lichfield]] operated by National Express West Midlands. This partially replaced service X12 to [[Burton-upon-Trent]] which was run by Midland Classic. Arriva Midlands operate service 110 up to every 15 minutes between Birmingham and Tamworth.