Halesowen railway station

Halesowen
The site of Halesowen railway station, now in use as an industrial estate.
Location
Place	Halesowen
Area	Dudley
Coordinates	52°27′15″N 2°02′32″W / 52.4541°N 2.0422°W / 52.4541; -2.0422Coordinates: 52°27′15″N 2°02′32″W / 52.4541°N 2.0422°W / 52.4541; -2.0422
Grid reference	SO972840
Operations
Original company	Midland Railway and Great Western Railway joint
Platforms	2
History
1 March 1878	Opened[1]
5 December 1927	Closed to passengers[1]
29 August 1958	Closed[1]
1964	Line closed[1]
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Halesowen railway station was a railway station in Halesowen, England, on the Great Western Railway & Midland Railway's Joint Halesowen Railway line from Old Hill to Longbridge.

History

The station opened in 1878, it had a very short life in terms of passenger services. All of the station, lines and passenger services ceased in 1927 except a few factory worker trains which served the Austin Rover Works in Longbridge until 1958.^[1]

The station had yard facilities and a small branch to the Hawne Basin on the Dudley Canal, with freight services continuing until the closure of the line in 1964.

Present

Today the track bed is still in place but there is no sign of Halesowen’s railway station. The station site is an industrial site on the bottom of Mucklow Hill (which used to pass over the railway line on a bridge) next to Halesowen College.^[2][3]

References

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Stourbridge to Wolverhampton. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 51-58. ISBN 9781906008161. OCLC 261924375.