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{{short description|Area of Birmingham, England}}
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'''Tyseley''' is a district in the southern half of the city of [[Birmingham]], England, near the Coventry Road and the districts of [[Acocks Green]], [[Small Heath, West Midlands|Small Heath]] and [[Yardley, Birmingham|Yardley]]. It is located near the [[Grand Union Canal]].

==Etymology==
Tyseley means "Tyssa's clearing" with "-ley" meaning woodland clearing.<ref>[[Victor Skipp]], ''The History of Greater Birmingham - down to 1830'', 1987. {{ISBN|0-9506998-0-2}}</ref>

==Education==
The local comprehensive secondary school (on Reddings Lane) is [[Yardleys School]], which was newly constructed on the site of a former brick works. The school moved from its previous split site location in 2001. There is also several primary schools located in Tyseley, among those an Islamic school called Al [[Al-Furqan Schools|Furqan]] which was established on site a decade ago.

==Industry==
[[Image:Birmingham energy recovery facility 24y07.JPG|right|thumb|The [[Birmingham energy recovery facility]].]]
Tyseley was once a thriving industrial area with thousands of people working in the area for major companies such as TI Reynolds (formerly Reynolds Tubes) and Corona, attracting a large number of [[bicycle]] and [[motorcycle]] manufacturers to the area, and component suppliers. Other companies based in the area in the past include [[Abingdon Motorcycles]] (later becoming ''King Dick Tools''), [[Dawes Cycles]], Girling Brakes, Slumberland, Smiths Crisps, MEM Electrical, Harmo Exhausts, Wilmot Breedon and also the factory where Co-Operative Society (CWS) toys, motorcycles, prams and bicycles were made. They marketed their toys as 'Tyseley Toys'.

[[File:Headbadge cws bootiebike.com 2.gif|thumb|140px|Headbadge design of Tyseley-made [[The Co-operative Group|CWS]] bicycle from the 1960s]]

The area contains many Victorian buildings that housed many manual workers reflecting the heritage of the area and the city. There is now a large [[incineration]] plant, the [[Tyseley Energy from Waste Plant]], which burns rubbish and in the process produces electricity for the [[National Grid (UK)|National Grid]].

Much of Tyseley remains industrial, with many companies, including [[Klaxon]], [[SCC (Specialist Computer Centres)|SCC]], [[Western Pegasus Limited]] and [[Bakelite|Bakelite Limited]], basing themselves there. One of the local attractions is the [[Tyseley Locomotive Works]], located inside a large railway depot.

==Transport==
The 4, 4A, and 41 bus services, operated by [[National Express West Midlands]] and Stagecoach serve the Tyseley area.

[[Tyseley railway station]] was a predominant junction for the ex-[[Great Western Railway]] mainline between [[Birmingham Snow Hill railway station|Birmingham Snow Hill]] and [[Paddington railway station|London Paddington]], with the [[North Warwickshire Line]] (via [[Shirley railway station (England)|Shirley]] to [[Stratford upon Avon railway station|Stratford upon Avon]]) diverging here. Tyseley is on the [[Chiltern Main Line]] between [[Marylebone railway station|London Marylebone]] and [[Birmingham Moor Street railway station|Birmingham Moor Street]] and Birmingham Snow Hill.

The [[North Warwickshire Line]] used to run beyond [[Stratford upon Avon railway station|Stratford upon Avon]] onto [[Honeybourne railway station]] (which is on the [[Cotswold Line]]) as the [[Honeybourne Line]] to [[Cheltenham Spa railway station|Cheltenham]].

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