Brierley Hill railway station

Brierley Hill
The station in 1962
General information
Location	Brierley Hill, Dudley Metropolitan Borough England
Coordinates	52°29′03″N2°07′38″W / 52.4841°N 2.1273°W / 52.4841; -2.1273
Grid reference	SO914873
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1858	Opened
30 July 1962	Closed [1]

Brierley Hill railway station was a station on the Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton Line serving the town of Brierley Hill in the West Midlands County (historically Staffordshire) in England.

History

It was opened in 1858.^{[ citation needed ]} British Rail closed the station in 1962.^{[ citation needed ]} 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.^{[ citation needed ]}

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.^{[ citation needed ]}

Today, Goods trains still use the track where the station once stood, on their way to the nearby Round Oak Steel Terminal.^{[ citation needed ]}

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. Due to delays and cost overruns, the Metro extension from Wednesbury is expected to open as far as Dudley in 2025. Further extension to Brierley Hill and Merry Hill is subject to funding being made available.

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] [ needs update ]}

References

v t e West Midlands Metro Wednesbury to Brierley Hill extension
Legend
Line One at Wednesbury Tame Valley Canal Golds Hill 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 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.

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