Great Bridge South railway station

Not to be confused with the nearby Great Bridge North railway station.

Great Bridge South
Location
Place	Great Bridge
Area	Sandwell
Coordinates	52°31′52″N 2°02′14″W / 52.5311°N 2.0371°W / 52.5311; -2.0371Coordinates: 52°31′52″N 2°02′14″W / 52.5311°N 2.0371°W / 52.5311; -2.0371
Grid reference	SO975925
Operations
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
History
1866	Opened as Great Bridge[1]
1915	Closed[1]
1920	Reopened[1]
1950	Renamed as Great Bridge South[1]
1964	Closed[1]
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Great Bridge South station site (On the embankment near the industrial.

Great Bridge South railway station was the only station on a link line between the South Staffordshire Line and the Birmingham Snow Hill-Wolverhampton Low Level Line. It was opened in 1866. As with a lot of passenger stations, it closed during the years of the First World War but reopened in 1920 and remained operational until British Rail closed the station through the Beeching Axe in 1964.

Despite another station existing in Great Bridge from 1866, the station was not given the name of South until after nationalisation in 1950.

The station site is now a housing estate.

Great Bridge North (right) and Great Bridge South (left)

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