Brierley Hill railway station

Brierley Hill railway station was a station on the Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton Line.

Brierley Hill
The station in 1962
Location
Place	Dudley
Area	West Midlands
Coordinates	52.4841°N 2.1273°W / 52.4841; -2.1273
Grid reference	SO914873
Operations
Original company	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
History
1858	Opened
30 July 1962	Closed[1]
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

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, but ongoing negotiations between Network Rail and Midlands Metro Alliance is for freight to run from Walsall to Round Oak Steelworks while there is a chance the trams will be Tram-Trains.

West Midlands Trains has plans within its franchise bid to reopen the line from Stourbridge Junction to Canal Street tram stop via Stourbridge Town and Brierley Hill by December 2023.[3]

References

West Midlands Metro Line 2
Wednesbury-to-Brierley-Hill-extension
Line One at Wednesbury Tame Valley Canal Golds Hill (provisional) Walsall Canal Great Bridge Horseley Road Dudley Port Birmingham New Main Line canal (under aqueduct) Sedgley Road East Birmingham Old Main Line canal Birmingham New Road Tipton Road Dudley Castle Dudley Town Centre Flood Street New Road (provisional) Cinder Bank Parkhead Viaduct over Dudley Canal Pedmore Road Canal Street Waterfront Merry Hill Brierley Hill

1. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
2. "Stourbridge to Walsall train-tram plan is on the right lines". Stourbridge News. 23 March 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

Further reading

• Boynton, John (1997). A Century of Railways around Birmingham and the West Midlands Volume 1. ISBN 0-9522248-4-4.
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Stourbridge to Wolverhampton. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 16-19. ISBN 9781906008161. OCLC 261924375.

External links

• Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Brierley Hill railway station

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