Stourbridge Junction railway station
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| Stourbridge Junction | |
| Image:Stourbridge Junction railway station.jpg | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Place | Stourbridge |
| Local authority | Dudley |
| Operations | |
| Station code | SBJ |
| Managed by | Central Trains |
| Platforms in use | 3 |
| Annual entry/exit | 0.371 million * |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | West Midlands |
| Zone | 5 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1852 |
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |
| * based on sales of tickets in 2004/05 financial year which end or originate at Stourbridge Junction. Disclaimer (PDF) | |
Stourbridge Junction railway station is a railway station on the Birmingham, Worcester and Kidderminster Line in West Midlands, England. Stourbridge Town Branch Line runs from the station to Stourbridge town centre. Until 1974 the station was in Worcestershire.
The nearest railway stations are Hagley, Stourbridge Town and Lye.
[edit] History
The station was opened in 1852 on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton railway line, at a slightly different location to the present station, under the name of Stourbridge. The junction came about when the Stourbridge Railway built their line to Lye and beyond.
Stourbridge become a double junction on 1st October 1879 when the branch to Stourbridge Town and goods was opened.
On 1 October 1901 the new station opened 400 yards to the south of the original.
In 1962 the OW&WR closed north of Stourbridge to passenger services under the Beeching axe.
[edit] Railway operations
From Stoubridge Junction, the main trains in service are Centro/Central Trains BR Class 150 DMU units. They usually run to Birmingham Snow Hill via the Black Country stations and Smethwick Galton Bridge, to Hereford via Worcester Shrub Hill and Great Malvern and to Stratford, Shirley, or Dorridge
Chiltern Railways also provide a peak time service to London Marylebone, comencing at Kidderminster and running via Birmingham Snow Hill.
EWS freight trains pass through Stoubridge on a regular basis, running to/from Round Oak Steel Terminal and Moor Street Goods, both in Brierley Hill. Theses trains generally come from Bescot TMD but also from as far afield as Llanwern Steelworks in South Wales. Locomotives used by EWS through Stoubridge are generally Class 60s and Class 59s, with others which pass through from many places to and from Bescot TMD. Class 66s have also known to occasionally run over the Round Oak route, which is officially known as the South Staffordshire line, though these are often not powerful enough to haul the heavy steel trains from Round Oak. Freight trains that run over this route cross the large, graceful Stambermill Viaduct just north of the town itself.
Trains operating from the Junction to Stourbridge Town are a lone single unit Class 153 and since 2006 an experimental Parry People Mover on Sunday service.
There is a vast array of sidings to the north of the station and they are often used to rest various maintenance vehicles and trains, and they are home to a Chiltern Railways LMD (light maintenance depot) where at night, and on Sundays, many Class 168 trains can be seen resting.
[edit] External links
- Train times and station information for Stourbridge Junction railway station from National Rail
- Street map and aerial photo of Stourbridge Junction railway station from Multimap.com
- Rail around Birmingham Page
- Railways in Worcestershire
- Re-open the Stourbridge-Dudley Line
- S.L.U.G (Stourbridge Line Users Group)
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lye | Central Trains Leamington-Worcester | Hagley | ||
| Lye | Chiltern Railways London-Kidderminster Peak Hours only | Hagley | ||
| Terminus | Central Trains Stourbridge Junction-Stourbridge Town | Stourbridge Town | ||
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