Blackwell railway station

Not to be confused with Blackwall railway station.

Blackwell
Location
Place	Blackwell
Operations
Original company	Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
5 Jun 1841	Opened
18 Apr 1966	Closed^[1]
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Blackwell: summit of Lickey Bank, with Up express

Blackwell station in July 1959

Blackwell railway station was a railway station serving Blackwell in the English county of Worcestershire. It was opened by the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway in 1841 a year after the line opened. In 1846 it became part of the Midland Railway which had been formed two years before. ^[2]

It was situated at the top of the steepest part of the Lickey Incline and, slightly to the north was the sidings where the banking engines would drop back from their trains and reverse ready to return to Bromsgrove. In addition trains travelling southwards or down would be brought to a stand at the head of the incline for a brake test including, until 1941, passenger trains. In the days before through braking of goods trains, wagon brakes would have to be pinned down. Even later, when vacuum braking had been introduced, most trains would only be partly fitted and, often, a banking engine would have to lead the train to provide extra braking

There were two platforms, that on the down (southward)^[3] line being exceedingly long - much longer than that on the up side. Access to it was by a barrow crossing to the south, there being no footbridge. There were short goods sidings for each line running into bay platforms with an extra one on the up side. The entrance and booking hall was on the up platform, with a small waiting room on the other side. Construction was of typical Midland Railway brick built design with wooden awnings

At grouping in 1923 it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. The station closed in 1966. Although a few railway cottages still exist, the station itself has disappeared.

References

↑ Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
↑ Preston Hendry, R., Powell Hendry, R., (1982) An historical survey of selected LMS stations : layouts and illustrations. Vol. 1 Oxford Publishing
↑ Direction on this line was, and is, measured from milepost zero at Derby

External links

http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/Stations/blackwell.php

Closed railway stations in Worcestershire

Tenbury and Bewdley Railway	Easton Court Tenbury Wells Newnham Bridge Wyre Forest

Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway	Suckley Knightwick Leigh Court

Worcester and Hereford Railway	Henwick Boughton Halt Rushwick Halt Bransford Road Newland Halt Malvern Wells

Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway	Malvern Hanley Road Upton-on-Severn Ripple

Severn Valley Railway	Rifle Range Halt Foley Park Halt Burlish Halt Stourport-on-Severn

Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway	Cutnall Green Halt Stoke Works Fernhill Heath Astwood Halt Norton Junction Halt Stoulton Wyre Halt Fladbury Littleton and Badsey

Birmingham and Gloucester Railway	Cofton Blackwell Stoke Works (B&G) Dodderhill Dunhampstead Oddingley Bredicot Spetchley Norton (B&G) Abbot's Wood Junction Wadborough Pirton Besford Defford Eckington Bredon

Gloucester Loop Line	Harvington Bengeworth Hinton Ashton-under-Hill Beckford

Honeybourne Line	Broadway

Coordinates: 52°20′41″N 2°00′50″W / 52.34478°N 2.01399°W / 52.34478; -2.01399

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