Stourbridge Town railway station

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Stourbridge Town
Location
Place Stourbridge
Local authority Dudley
Operations
Managed by Central Trains
Platforms in use 1
Annual entry/exit 04/05 0.200 million **
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE West Midlands
Zone 5
History
Key dates Opened 1879
Closed 1915
Reopened 1919
National Rail - UK railway stations

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Stourbridge Town is a railway station near the centre of Stourbridge, West Midlands, England. It is situated at the end of a short branch line linking the station with Stourbridge Junction just 0.8 miles away, where passengers can change for mainline train services.

The original station was a surprisingly grand affair which survived mostly intact until 1978 when it was demolished. Some of the material from the old station was saved and used for buildings at the Birmingham Railway Museum. The back wall of the station was demolished slightly earlier, when in April 1977 a single car train suffered a brake failure while descending the branch from Stourbridge Junction and crashed through the buffers and the wall beyond leaving the front part of the train overhanging the road below.

The current station is a small modern facility directly linked to the bus station allowing easy interchange with bus services. It has a single platform which is just long enough to hold the single car Class 153 railcar which shuttles passengers between the station and Stourbridge Junction.

In 2006, an experimental Sunday service using a Parry People Mover was introduced on the branch.

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Preceding station National Rail Following station
Stourbridge Junction   Central Trains
Stourbridge Town Branch Line		   Terminus
Railway stations in the West Midlands
Birmingham city centre:

Birmingham New Street - Birmingham Moor Street - Birmingham Snow Hill

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