| Brierley Hill | |
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| The station in 1962 | |
| Location | |
| Place | Dudley |
| Area | West Midlands |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| History | |
| 20 December 1852 | Station opens |
| 30 July 1962 | Station closes [1] |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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Brierley Hill railway station was a station on the Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton Line.
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It was opened in 1858. British Rail closed the station pre-Beeching in 1962. Two railways/routes served the station - originally the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway and the South Staffordshire Railway, which later became the Great Western Railway and London, Midland and Scottish Railway (through amalgamation of the London and North Western Railway) respectively.
The station's pedestrian entrance from Station Road is still in existence, though it has long been blocked off by a fence.
Today, Goods trains still use the track where the station once stood, on their way to the nearby Round Oak Steel Terminal.
A £1,100,000/15 year long regeneration project will see the station become part of the local tram network with the line reopening between Walsall, Dudley Port railway station, Dudley railway station and the Merry Hill Shopping Centre for trams on one track and for freight on the other. The freighters would continue on pat Brettell Lane railway station and on to the mainline at Stourbridge junction[2]. The closed section of railway through Dudley is expected to re-open during the 2010s[3], as a combined Midland Metro tramway and a heavy rail line for goods trains.
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| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Round Oak | Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Later Great Western Railway, then British Rail Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton (1852-1962) |
Brettell Lane | ||
| Round Oak | South Staffordshire Railway Later LNWR, then LMS, finally BR South Staffs Line Dudley-Stourbridge Junction section (1852-1962) |
Brettell Lane | ||
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Round Oak To stabel spare stock. | BR, then EWS South Staffs Line Dudley-Stourbridge Junction section |
Brettell Lane | ||