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unusual facts about Midland Metro


Swan Village Gas Works

The only remains of the Swan Lane Basin and Great Bridge railway lines are the extra gaps under the bridge on Bilhay Lane where the lines converged with GWR's Birmingham to Wolverhampton line, which still exists today as Line 1 of the Midland Metro.


Birmingham City Centre

The Midland Metro system, opened in 1999, terminates at Snow Hill station and has stops at St Paul's and the Jewellery Quarter.

Corporation Street tram stop

Corporation Street will be a stop on the city-centre extension of Line 1 of the Midland Metro onto Corporation Street in Birmingham City Centre, United Kingdom.

Ettingshall

The Midland Metro tramway has two stops in the area: The Royal (named after the now-closed Royal Wolverhampton Hospital) and Priestfield.

Soho and Winson Green railway station

Soho Benson Road tram stop now sits upon the former station site, as part of the Midland Metro light-rail system.

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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