Brownhills railway station

Brownhills
A train passes through Brownhills in 1909
Location
Place	Brownhills
Area	Walsall
Coordinates	52°38′58″N 1°56′05″W / 52.6494°N 1.9346°W / 52.6494; -1.9346Coordinates: 52°38′58″N 1°56′05″W / 52.6494°N 1.9346°W / 52.6494; -1.9346
Grid reference	SK045057
Operations
Original company	South Staffordshire Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
1849	Opened[1]
1965	Closed[1]
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The station in 1962

Station site currently

Brownhills railway station was a station on the South Staffordshire Line in England.

History

It was opened in 1849.^[1] The station was built and served by the South Staffordshire Railway, which later became the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (through amalgamation of the London and North Western Railway).

Unlike Wednesbury and Great Bridge further up the line, this station was never assigned another name when a second station was opened by the Midland Railway.

It closed as part of the Beeching Axe in January 1965. Goods trains continued to pass through the site until March 1984, when the line was completely closed. It is currently preserved for the future re-opening of the railway line between Walsall and Lichfield.

Station site today

The trackbed between Pelsall and Brownhills is currently overgrown but still walkable until the bridge over the canal, with the trackbed to Brownhills and towards Hammerwich being heavily overgrown and boggy. Over the decades it has been used as a litter dumping ground and the trackbed and station site are covered in forest and boggy puddles.

It was recently cleared by a local group called "Back the Track". They are trying to extend the former trackbed to Lichfield but have no right to due to it being mothballed and as a result. They only have the right to look after the trackbed from Brownhills to Rushall.

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