These cities, towns and villages are served by the line: A mixture of intercity, regional, cross-country and local services operate over all or parts of the route.

The line was electrified along with the rest of the WCML during the late 1960s in the wake of the BR 1955 Modernisation Plan.

In 1987, British Rail commissioned artist Kevin Atherton to produce a series of sculptures to be erected along the line between Birmingham New Street station and Wolverhampton.

Despite the heavy traffic carried by the line, it is only double track throughout, and heavily congested, especially between Coventry and Birmingham.

[8] Periodic calls have been made since to quadruple the line between Coventry and Birmingham to ease congestion.