The ticket office is located at road level, adjacent to the bridge.

[1] The station was opened by the Great Western Railway (GWR) on 1 July 1908, along with the line, and was originally known as Yardley Wood Platform....

Unlike the previous and following stations on the line (Shirley and Hall Green) Yardley Wood was never provided with goods facilities.

[2] The station staff houses for the Station Master and Sub-Station Master, built on Highfield Road by GWR in 1907, were in use until around the late 1970s but were sold off as private houses shortly after this time.

They still stand next to the station on Highfield Road During Monday to Saturday daytimes: On Sundays, there is an hourly train between Worcester, Birmingham, Shirley and Stratford-upon-Avon.