Sandwell and Dudley railway station

Sandwell and Dudley railway station is on the Birmingham Loop of the West Coast Main Line, on the outskirts of Oldbury town centre on Bromford Lane (the main route towards West Bromwich, West Midlands), England. The name of the station is somewhat misleading; the station is actually located between West Bromwich and Oldbury, and not near Dudley. The nearest station to the town of Dudley is actually Dudley Port.

Sandwell and Dudley

Location
Place	Oldbury
Local authority	Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell
Coordinates	52.508637°N 2.011776°W / 52.508637; -2.011776
Grid reference	SO992900
Operations
Station code	SAD
Managed by	West Midlands Railway
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.832 million
2015/16	0.909 million
2016/17	0.965 million
2017/18	1.005 million
2018/19	1.071 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Transport for West Midlands
Zone	4
History
1852	Opened as Oldbury and Bromford Lane
1983	Rebuilt and renamed Sandwell and Dudley
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Sandwell and Dudley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

It was originally opened as 'Oldbury' in 1852 and was one of two stations in the town. The more centrally located Great Western Railway Oldbury was located on the site of the bingo hall opposite the Sainsburys supermarket and was the only station on the GWR's Oldbury Branch Line from Langley Green.

However, in 1984 it was rebuilt and equipped with longer platforms capable of handling long-distance intercity trains.

Services

The station today is operated by West Midlands Railway on behalf of Transport for West Midlands. Services are provided by Avanti West Coast and West Midlands Railway.

Current Services are as follows:

2tph West Midlands Railway stopping services each to Wolverhampton and Walsall via Birmingham New Street and Aston.[1]
1tph West Midlands Railway services each to Birmingham New Street and to Shrewsbury calling at all stations between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury.[2]
1tph Avanti West Coast services - one to either Glasgow Central or Edinburgh Waverley (alternate hours) via Crewe & Preston and the other to London Euston via Birmingham New Street, Birmingham International, Coventry and Milton Keynes Central. At peak times additional services start/terminate at Wolverhampton.[3]

Both platforms have lifts, making the station fully accessible to people in wheelchairs.

Notes

GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 68
GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 74
GB National Rail Timetable May 2016 Edition, Tables 65 & 66

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Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Sandwell and Dudley station

Preceding station		Following station
Birmingham New Street	Avanti West Coast West Coast Main Line	Wolverhampton
Birmingham New Street	West Midlands Railway Birmingham-Shrewsbury	Wolverhampton
Smethwick Galton Bridge	West Midlands Railway Wolverhampton-Birmingham/Walsall	Dudley Port
Smethwick Galton Bridge	London Northwestern Railway Birmingham-Liverpool	Dudley Port

Railway stations in the West Midlands county

Open stations

Birmingham	Acocks Green Adderley Park Aston Blake Street Bordesley Bournville Butlers Lane Chester Road Duddeston Erdington Five Ways Four Oaks Gravelly Hill Hall Green Hamstead Jewellery Quarter Kings Norton Lea Hall Longbridge Moor Street New Street Northfield Perry Barr Selly Oak Small Heath Snow Hill Spring Road Stechford Sutton Coldfield Tyseley University Witton Wylde Green Yardley Wood
Coventry	Canley Coventry Coventry Arena Tile Hill
Dudley	Coseley Lye Stourbridge Junction Stourbridge Town
Sandwell	Bescot Stadium Cradley Heath Dudley Port Langley Green Old Hill Rowley Regis Sandwell and Dudley Smethwick Galton Bridge Smethwick Rolfe Street Tame Bridge Parkway The Hawthorns Tipton
Solihull	Berkswell Birmingham International Dorridge Earlswood Hampton-in-Arden Marston Green Olton Shirley Solihull Whitlocks End Widney Manor
Walsall	Bloxwich Bloxwich North Walsall
Wolverhampton	Wolverhampton
Outside West Midlands county, but within the Transport for West Midlands area	Wythall

Disused

Birmingham	Bromford Bridge Camp Hill Castle Bromwich Central Goods Church Road Curzon Street Granville Street Hagley Road Handsworth & Smethwick Handsworth Wood Harborne Hazelwell Hockley Icknield Port Road Kings Heath Lawley Street Lifford Longbridge (1915–1964) Monument Lane Moseley Penns Rotton Park Road Rubery Saltley Soho & Winson Green Soho Road Somerset Road Sutton Park Sutton Coldfield Town Winson Green
Coventry	Coundon Road Daimler Halt Foleshill Longford and Exhall
Dudley	Baptist End Blowers Green Brettell Lane Brierley Hill Brockmoor Halt Bromley Halt Darby End Dudley Gornal Halt Halesowen Harts Hill Old Hill High Street Pensnett Halt Round Oak Windmill End
Sandwell	Albion Great Bridge North Great Bridge South Newton Road Oldbury Princes End & Coseley Rood End Smethwick West Soho Spon Lane Swan Village Tipton Five Ways Wednesbury Central Wednesbury Town West Bromwich
Walsall	Aldridge Bentley Brownhills Brownhills Watling Street Darlaston Darlaston James Bridge North Walsall Pelsall Pleck Rushall Short Heath Streetly Walsall Wood Willenhall Bilston Street Willenhall Stafford Street Wood Green
Wolverhampton	Bilston Central Bilston West Bradley and Moxley Bushbury Compton Halt Daisy Bank Dunstall Park Ettingshall Road Heath Town Monmore Green Portobello Priestfield Tettenhall Wednesfield Heath for Wolverhampton Wednesfield Wolverhampton Low Level

Heritage
Tyseley, Warwick Road

List of railway stations in the West Midlands
Transport in the West Midlands
Transport for West Midlands

Railway stations served by Avanti West Coast
B	Bangor Birmingham International Birmingham New Street Blackpool North
C	Carlisle Chester Colwyn Bay Coventry Crewe
E	Edinburgh Waverley
F	Flint
G	Glasgow Central
H	Haymarket Holyhead
K	Kirkham and Wesham
L	Lancaster Lichfield Trent Valley Liverpool Lime Street Llandudno Junction London Euston
M	Macclesfield Manchester Piccadilly Milton Keynes Central
N	Nuneaton
O	Oxenholme Lake District
P	Penrith North Lakes Poulton-le-Fylde Prestatyn Preston
R	Rhyl Rugby Runcorn
S	Sandwell and Dudley Shrewsbury Stafford Stockport Stoke-on-Trent
T	Tamworth Telford Central
W	Warrington Bank Quay Watford Junction Wellington Wigan North Western Wilmslow Wolverhampton
Rail transport in the United Kingdom

Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains

Stations listed in italics are request stops.

London Northwestern Railway
A	Acton Bridge Adderley Park Alsager Apsley Aspley Guise Atherstone
B	Bedford Bedford St. Johns Berkhamsted Berkswell Bescot Stadium Birmingham International Birmingham New Street Bletchley Bloxwich Bloxwich North Bow Brickhill Bricket Wood Bushey
C	Canley Cannock Cheddington Coseley Coventry Crewe
F	Fenny Stratford
G	Garston (Hertfordshire)
H	Hampton-in-Arden Harrow and Wealdstone Hartford Hednesford Hemel Hempstead How Wood
K	Kempston Hardwick Kidsgrove Kings Langley
L	Landywood Lea Hall Leighton Buzzard Lichfield Trent Valley Lidlington Liverpool Lime Street Liverpool South Parkway London Euston Long Buckby
M	Marston Green Millbrook (Bedfordshire) Milton Keynes Central
N	Northampton Nuneaton
P	Park Street Penkridge Polesworth
R	Ridgmont Rugby Rugeley Town Rugeley Trent Valley Runcorn
S	Smethwick Galton Bridge Stafford St. Albans Abbey Stechford Stewartby Stoke-on-Trent Stone
T	Tame Bridge Parkway Tamworth Tile Hill Tring
W	Walsall Watford Junction Watford North Wembley Central Winsford Wolverhampton Wolverton

West Midlands Railway
A	Acocks Green Albrighton Alvechurch Aston
B	Barnt Green Bedworth Bermuda Park Bescot Stadium Bilbrook Birmingham Moor Street Birmingham New Street Birmingham Snow Hill Blakedown Blake Street Bordesley Bournville Bromsgrove Butlers Lane
C	Chester Road Codsall Colwall Coseley Cosford Coventry Coventry Arena Cradley Heath
D	Danzey Dorridge Droitwich Spa Duddeston Dudley Port
E	Earlswood (West Midlands) Erdington
F	Five Ways Four Oaks
G	Gravelly Hill Great Malvern
H	Hagley Hall Green Hamstead Hartlebury Henley-in-Arden Hereford
J	Jewellery Quarter
K	Kenilworth Kidderminster Kings Norton
L	Langley Green Leamington Spa Ledbury Lichfield City Lichfield Trent Valley Longbridge Lye
M	Malvern Link
N	Northfield Nuneaton
O	Oakengates Old Hill Olton
P	Perry Barr
R	Redditch Rowley Regis
S	Sandwell and Dudley Selly Oak Shifnal Shirley Shrewsbury Small Heath Smethwick Galton Bridge Smethwick Rolfe Street Solihull Spring Road Stourbridge Junction Stourbridge Town Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway Sutton Coldfield
T	Tame Bridge Parkway Telford Central The Hawthorns The Lakes Tipton Tyseley
U	University
W	Walsall Wellington Whitlocks End Widney Manor Wilmcote Witton Wolverhampton Wood End Wootton Wawen Worcester Foregate Street Worcester Shrub Hill Wylde Green Wythall
Y	Yardley Wood

Rail transport in the United Kingdom

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