Langley Green railway station

Langley Green railway station serves the Langley Green area of Oldbury in Sandwell, in the West Midlands, England. It is located on the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line. The station is managed by West Midlands Trains, who provide the majority of train services; there are also occasional services provided by Chiltern Railways.

Not to be confused with Langley railway station or Langley Mill railway station.

Langley Green
Langley Green railway station in 2010
Location
PlaceLangley Green
Local authoritySandwell
Grid referenceSO997883
Operations
Station codeLGG
Managed byWest Midlands Trains
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryE
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.170 million
2015/16 0.181 million
2016/17 0.189 million
2017/18 0.197 million
2018/19 0.225 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTETransport for West Midlands
Zone3
History
Key datesOpened 1 May 1885 (1 May 1885)
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Langley Green from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

The station was opened on 1 May 1885 by the Great Western Railway on their line from Birmingham Snow Hill to Stourbridge Junction.[1][2] There was also a Great Western Railway branch from here to Oldbury, a large town to the north. The Oldbury branch closed to passengers on 3 March 1915;[2] and the remains of this line and its platforms can still be seen at Langley Green station.

The line from Smethwick West through to Snow Hill closed in 1972. In the run up to closure the sparse service to Snow Hill terminated at Langley Green, with Kidderminster services diverted into Birmingham New Street. This continued until 1995 when the line through Snow Hill to Birmingham Moor Street was restored. Some Hereford and Worcester to New Street trains continued to run via the Smethwick Jcn - Galton Junction curve until May 2004, but the route today is only used for diversions if the normal route to Snow Hill is closed for engineering work.

Services

The typical Monday-Saturday daytime service is every 30 minutes, between Stourbridge Junction and Birmingham Snow Hill, with alternate trains continuing beyond Birmingham to Dorridge or Whitlocks End. Most daytime trains on both routes trains continue through to Stratford-upon-Avon since the winter 2013 timetable change.[3] Most local services are run by Class 172 Diesel Multiple Unit currently, with the one Chiltern Railways service per day that is run by a Class 168 DMU only.

There are additional services at peak times, though Chiltern Railways services to London Marylebone no longer call. There is one Chiltern Railways service that calls at this station on weekdays only. This is the 21:10 from London Marylebone which departs this station at 23:29 for Stourbridge Junction.[4]

References
  1. Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063. CN 8983.
  2. Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  3. GB National Rail Timetable 2013-14; Table 71 (Network Rail)
  4. "Realtime Trains - 21:10 London Marylebone to Stourbridge Junction". Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.

Further reading
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Worcester to Birmingham. Middleton Press. figs. 85-87, 89. ISBN 9781904474975. OCLC 263292710.
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Smethwick Galton Bridge   West Midlands Railway
Leamington-Worcester		   Rowley Regis
Smethwick Galton Bridge   Chiltern Railways
London-Kidderminster		   Rowley Regis
Disused railways
Rood End
Station Closed, Line Open		   Great Western Railway
Later British Rail		   Rowley Regis
Oldbury
Station and Line closed		   Great Western Railway
Later British Rail
Oldbury Railway		   Terminus
Smethwick Rolfe Street   Central Trains
Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line		   Rowley Regis

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