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5 unusual facts about South Staffordshire Line


Great Bridge, West Midlands

Great Bridge North Station was situated on the South Staffordshire Line between Walsall and Stourbridge, which closed to passengers in the 1960s but remained open for goods trains until the Walsall - Round Oak section was closed in 1993.

Philip Henry Muntz

In 1845 Muntz formed part of the committee promoting the South Staffordshire Junction Railway, in February 1846 he was appointed auditor of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway and later in the year he became chairman of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway.

South Staffordshire Line

The South Staffordshire Line is a railway line that once connected Lichfield in Staffordshire, England with Dudley, formerly in Worcestershire.

Swan Village Gas Works

From the station branched the Great Bridge line linking up with the South Staffordshire Line which ran to Dudley.

Toll End

It was opened in 1850 on the completion of the South Staffordshire Line between Stourbridge and Walsall, and for many years had a signal box which was typical of many which existed - and still exist - throughout the country.


Parry People Movers

In January 2012, plans emerged for new bigger PPMs to be used on the South Staffordshire Line between Stourbridge Junction and Brierley Hill, providing passenger services on the line for the first time since the Beeching Axe.


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Chasewater

John Robinson McClean engineered the rail line linking the South Staffordshire Line to the Hammerwich and Uxbridge Collieries as well as the Norton Branch.