Handsworth Booth Street tram stop

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Handsworth, Booth Street tram stop is a tram stop in Handsworth, Birmingham England. It was opened on 31 May 1999 and is situated on Midland Metro Line 1.

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Handsworth, Booth Street was opened in 1854 as Handsworth & Smethwick railway station on the GWR line from Birmingham Snow Hill station to Wolverhampton Low Level.

The station's architecture was reminiscent of that of other stations and was almost exactly the same as Wednesbury Central.

Closure of the line due to a decline in funding resulted in the closure of the station in 1972 and much of the site was demolished. In 1999, a new tram track was laid and the station was opened on the Midland Metro line named as Handsworth, Booth Street.

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• History and images of the stop

Preceding station	Midland Metro Lines			Following station
Winson Green, Outer Circle		Line 1		The Hawthorns

Railway stations in the West Midlands county
Main line:	Birmingham International Birmingham New Street Birmingham Moor Street Birmingham Snow Hill Coventry Wolverhampton
Local:	Acocks Green Adderley Park Aston Berkswell Bescot Stadium Blake Street Bloxwich Bloxwich North Bordesley Bournville Butlers Lane Canley Chester Road Coseley Cradley Heath Dorridge Duddeston Dudley Port Earlswood Erdington Five Ways Four Oaks Gravelly Hill Hall Green Hampton-in-Arden Hamstead Jewellery Quarter Kings Norton Langley Green Lea Hall Longbridge Lye Marston Green Northfield Old Hill Olton Perry Barr Rowley Regis Sandwell and Dudley Selly Oak Shirley Small Heath Smethwick Galton Bridge Smethwick Rolfe Street Solihull Spring Road Stechford Stourbridge Junction Stourbridge Town Sutton Coldfield Tame Bridge Parkway The Hawthorns Tile Hill Tipton Tyseley University Walsall Whitlocks End Widney Manor Witton Wylde Green Wythall Yardley Wood
Disused:	Blowers Green Brettell Lane Brierley Hill Brockmoor Halt Bromley Halt Brownhills Curzon Street Dudley Great Bridge North Handsworth & Smethwick Harts Hill Moseley Round Oak Pelsall Pensnett Halt Rushall Soho & Winson Green Wednesbury Town West Bromwich Wolverhampton Low Level
Heritage:	Birmingham Railway Museum Halt
Midland Metro:	Bilston Central Birmingham Snow Hill Black Lake Bradley Lane The Crescent (Bilston) Dartmouth Street Dudley Street, Guns Village Handsworth, Booth Street The Hawthorns Jewellery Quarter Kenrick Park Lodge Road, West Bromwich Town Hall Loxdale Priestfield The Royal Soho, Benson Road St. Paul's Trinity Way Wednesbury, Great Western Street Wednesbury Parkway West Bromwich Central Winson Green, Outer Circle Wolverhampton, St. George's
Transport in the West Midlands Centro Midland Metro