The station is served by West Midlands Trains with local Transport for West Midlands branded "Cross-City" services, operated using Class 323 Electric multiple units (EMUs)[2] until September 2024 and currently by Class 730 EMUs.

[3] The off-peak service pattern is as follows: Mondays to Saturdays: Sundays: This increase follows the installation of a passing loop and second platform at the station in 2014.

The remainder of the route (including Alvechurch station) was threatened with closure following the publication of the Beeching Report in 1963 but subsequently reprieved (albeit with a much-reduced service of just four trains per day each way from the mid-1960s onwards) to serve the planned Redditch New town development announced in 1964.

As a PTE station, Alvechurch has train services operated under the Network West Midlands names.

Under their auspices, the service was significantly improved in 1980 when the branch became part of the recently inaugurated Cross-City Line from Lichfield City via New Street and Kings Norton.

Network Rail planned to increase capacity by adding a passing loop and second platform at Alvechurch.

The section of line between Longbridge and Redditch was closed for 2 months from July 2014 to the end of August 2014 for the new track to be laid and overhead cables to be installed.