Brierley Hill railway station

Brierley Hill

The station in 1962
Location
Place Dudley
Area West Midlands
Operations
Original company Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Platforms 2
History
1858 Station opens
30 July 1962 Station closes [1]
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Brierley Hill railway station was a station on the Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton Line.

History

It was opened in 1858. British Rail closed the station pre-Beeching in 1962. Two railways/routes served the station - originally the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway and the South Staffordshire Railway, which later became the Great Western Railway and London, Midland and Scottish Railway (through amalgamation of the London and North Western Railway) respectively.

Today's usage

The station's pedestrian entrance from Station Road is still in existence, though it has long been blocked off by a fence.

Today, Goods trains still use the track where the station once stood, on their way to the nearby Round Oak Steel Terminal.

Re-opening

In January 2012, plans were announced to run a passenger service between Stourbridge Junction and Brierley Hill, with stations being re-opened along the route, including Brierley Hill. The service would be operated by railcars built by Parry People Movers, who built the Class139 units which run the Stourbridge Town service. Another plan is for the entire line to re-open the South Staffs Line with passenger and freight trains between Stourbridge and Walsall.[2] In late 2015 plans emerged to re-open the Dudley Port Railway Station to Stourbridge line as the fact of trams serving on the same line as freight trains became extremely unlikely.

References

Midland Metro Line Two Proposed Merry Hill Extension

Legend
Joins existing Line One
Tame Valley Canal
Golds Hill
Walsall Canal
Great Bridge
Horseley Road
Dudley Port National Rail
Birmingham New Main Line Canal (under aqueduct)
Sedgley Road
Birmingham Old Main Line Canal
Birmingham New Road
Tipton Road
Dudley Town Centre for Dudley Bus station
Flood Street
New Road
Cinderbank
Parkhead Viaduct over Dudley Canal
Pedmore Road
Canal Street
Waterfront
Merry Hill
Brierley Hill
Brettell Lane
Stourbridge
  1. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
  2. http://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/8927004.Stourbridge_to_Walsall_train_tram_plan_is_on_the_right_lines/

External links

Further reading

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Round Oak   Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Later Great Western Railway, then British Rail
Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton (1852-1962)
  Brettell Lane
Round Oak   South Staffordshire Railway
Later LNWR, then LMS, finally BR
South Staffs Line Dudley-Stourbridge Junction section (1852-1962)
  Brettell Lane
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Round Oak To stabel spare stock.   BR, then EWS
South Staffs Line Dudley-Stourbridge Junction section
  Brettell Lane

Coordinates: 52°29′02″N 2°07′39″W / 52.48380°N 2.12748°W / 52.48380; -2.12748


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