[3] Lichfield Trent Valley Junction was built south of Burton Road close to Streethay just past the present signal box.

The Low Level platforms, serving the Rugby-Stafford line, were situated approximately 400 m (440 yd) south of the original TVR station.

The High Level platforms closed on 18 January 1965 with the withdrawal of passenger services between Lichfield City and Burton-on-Trent.

[3][10] At that time the service was hourly, and the diesel units were shunted as empty coaching stock North from the Down Walsall platform to just past the high level signalbox.

[11] These workings remained in place until the now current trailing crossover just south of the high level platform was opened during the electrification and upgrading of the line in 1992.

The disaster is one of the very rare cases in the UK that involved a mechanical point interlocking failing to prevent an accident.

[16][17][18][19] North of the high-level station, the line continues to Wychnor Junction, where it joins the Cross Country Route towards Derby.

This stretch of line remains open for freight trains, empty stock transfers to the nearby Central Rivers TMD and occasional diversions, but no longer has a regular advertised passenger service.

One platform of the high-level station was reopened as the northern terminus of the Cross City Line in 1988 by British Rail, with southbound services to Birmingham, Longbridge and Redditch only.

[13][14] In the June 2024 timetable services at Lichfield Trent Valley's Low level platforms are as follows: West Midlands Trains operating under the London Northwestern Railway branding, operates a semi-fast hourly service southbound to London Euston via Nuneaton, Rugby, and Milton Keynes Central and northbound to Crewe via Stafford.

[24] In April 2021 it was envisaged for services from Lichfield Trent Valley to Macclesfield and Manchester Piccadilly to start in the future as part of a possible direct award of the West Coast Partnership franchise.

[27][28] As part of the December 2024 timetable changes, on weekdays, two services from London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street will stop at Tamworth and Lichfield Trent Valley vice Rugby.