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unusual facts about Grand Junction Railway


Francis Trevithick

Born in 1812, he began the study of civil engineering around 1832, and by 1840 was employed by the Grand Junction Railway (GJR).


Bescot Stadium railway station

Bescot Stadium station is on the Walsall Line between Birmingham New Street and Walsall, part of the former Grand Junction Railway, opened in 1837.

Sandwell Valley

The Birmingham-Walsall Line, part of the former Grand Junction Railway, opened in 1837, runs through the northern end of the valley, with Hamstead railway station being the nearest.

Tame Valley Canal

Between Tame Valley Junction and Rushall Junction it goes under the Midland Metro near Wednesbury and crosses over the former Grand Junction Railway (now part of the Chase Line) by aqueduct, near Tame Bridge Parkway railway station (an unusual case of the railway pre-dating a neighbouring canal).


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Newton Road railway station

caption = from The Book of the Grand Junction Railway, Thomas Roscoe

River Weaver

Dutton railway viaduct, which was built by Joseph Locke and George Stephenson for the Grand Junction Railway, is grade II* listed, and a civic celebration was held on its completion, as there had been no deaths and no serious injuries to the workers during its construction.