Great Bridge North railway station

Former railway station in Staffordshire, England

Not to be confused with the nearby Great Bridge South railway station.

Great Bridge North

General information
Location| Great Bridge, Sandwell
England
Coordinates| 52°31′59″N 2°02′08″W﻿ / ﻿52.5331°N 2.0356°W﻿ / 52.5331; -2.0356
Grid reference| SO976927
Platforms| 2 (3)
Other information
Status| Disused
History
Original company| South Staffordshire Railway
Pre-grouping| London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping| London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1850| Opened as Great Bridge[1]
1950| Renamed Great Bridge North'[1]
1964| Closed to passengers
1972| Closed outright

Great Bridge North railway station was a station on the South Staffordshire Line that served the village of Great Bridge and town of Tipton in Staffordshire, England.

## History[edit]

The station was built in 1850 and was initially served by the South Staffordshire Railway. The South Staffordshire Railway was later absorbed by the London and North Western Railway, which amalgamated with several other railways in 1923 to create the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. The station shared the name Great Bridge with its Great Western Railway counterpart built in 1866. North was appended to the name of the station just after nationalisation.

Passenger usage declined in the early 1880s, and the line became mainly freight in 1887. It remained open for goods traffic as the district became highly industrialised in the heyday of the Black Country's industrial past. Local industry declined after World War II and road transport became more common. British Rail closed the station to passengers through the Beeching Axe in 1964, but it continued as a freight station for local factories until 1972. Goods trains continued to pass through the site of the station until 1993. By that date no sign of the station or the goods yard remained. It is now derelict and mostly fenced off.

## Midland Metro[edit]

A £1,100,000/15-year-long regeneration project is expected to re-open the closed section of railway through Dudley[2] as a combined Midland Metro tramway with a separate heavy rail line for goods trains. The old station site is earmarked as the location of a Midland Metro stop on the local tram network's second line between Walsall, Dudley Port railway station, Dudley railway station and the Merry Hill Shopping Centre scheduled for opening upon completion in 2011.[3][needs update] The freighters would continue on past Brettell Lane railway station and on to the mainline at Stourbridge junction.[3]

## Gallery[edit]

* Great Bridge North looking down from the crossing and past the signal box, 2003

* Great Bridge North station, 2003

* Great Bridge North station, 2005

* Great Bridge North signal box, 2001.

* Great Bridge North's road crossing by the signal box, 2003.

* Great Bridge North railway station, walking down from the crossing and past the signal box, towards the modern warehouse in 2003. The canal bridge is fenced off and collapsing.

* The former siding and platform entrance outside Great Bridge North station, 2011

## See also[edit]

* v
* t
* e

West Midlands Metro Line 2

Legend

Wednesbury-to-Brierley-Hill-extension

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|  | Line One

at Wednesbury

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|  | Tame Valley Canal
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|  | Golds Hill
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|  | Walsall Canal
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|  | Great Bridge
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|  | Horseley Road
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|  | Dudley Port
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| Birmingham New Main Line canal

(under aqueduct)

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|  | Sedgley Road East
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Birmingham Old Main Line canal

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|  | Birmingham New Road
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|  | Tipton Road
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|  | Dudley Castle
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|  | Dudley Town Centre
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|  | Flood Street
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|  | New Road
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|  | Cinder Bank
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| Parkhead Viaduct

over Dudley Canal

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|  | Pedmore Road
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|  | Canal Street
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|  | Waterfront
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|  | Merry Hill
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|  | Brierley Hill
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* Round Oak Steel Terminal
* Dudley Freightliner Terminal

Preceding station  |  | Disused railways  |  | Following station

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Wednesbury Town |  | South Staffordshire Railway
Later LNWR, then LMS, finally BR
South Staffs Line (1850-1964) |  | Dudley Port
Walsall

Terminus  |  | BR, then Freightliner
South Staffs Line (inc. Dudley-Stourbridge Junction to 1962) (1852-1964) |  | Dudley Freightliner Terminal

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Doherty, Andrew. "Great Bridge North Station". Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
2. ^ "Timetable, Funding and Support". Midland Metro. Archived from the original on 17 May 2008.
3. ^ a b Chadwick, Edward (25 November 2010). "Plans for £1.1 bn West Midlands Metro system unveiled". Birmingham Post. Archived from the original on 28 September 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2012.

* "Some South Staffordshire Railway Byways – The Darlaston Branch". John D's First Railway & Canal Blog. 25 August 2010.

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Railway stations in the West Midlands county

Open stations

| Birmingham|

* Acocks Green
* Adderley Park
* Aston
* Blake Street
* Bordesley
* Bournville
* Butlers Lane
* Chester Road
* Duddeston
* Erdington
* Five Ways
* Four Oaks
* Gravelly Hill
* Hall Green
* Hamstead
* Jewellery Quarter
* Kings Norton
* Lea Hall
* Longbridge
* Moor Street
* New Street
* Northfield
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* Selly Oak
* Small Heath
* Snow Hill
* Spring Road
* Stechford
* Sutton Coldfield
* Tyseley
* University
* Witton
* Wylde Green
* Yardley Wood

|

Coventry|

* Canley
* Coventry
* Coventry Arena
* Tile Hill

Dudley|

* Coseley
* Lye
* Stourbridge Junction
* Stourbridge Town

Sandwell|

* Bescot Stadium
* Cradley Heath
* Dudley Port
* Langley Green
* Old Hill
* Rowley Regis
* Sandwell & Dudley
* Smethwick Galton Bridge
* Smethwick Rolfe Street
* Tame Bridge Parkway
* The Hawthorns
* Tipton

Solihull|

* Berkswell
* Birmingham International
* Dorridge
* Earlswood
* Hampton-in-Arden
* Marston Green
* Olton
* Shirley
* Solihull
* Whitlocks End
* Widney Manor

Walsall|

* Bloxwich
* Bloxwich North
* Walsall

Wolverhampton|

* Wolverhampton

Outside West Midlands county,
but within the Transport for West Midlands area|

* Wythall

Disused

| Birmingham|

* Bromford Bridge
* Camp Hill
* Castle Bromwich
* Central Goods
* Church Road
* Curzon Street
* Granville Street
* Hagley Road
* Handsworth & Smethwick
* Handsworth Wood
* Harborne
* Hazelwell
* Hockley
* Icknield Port Road
* Kings Heath
* Lawley Street
* Lifford
* Longbridge (1915–1964)
* Monument Lane
* Moseley
* Penns
* Rotton Park Road
* Rubery
* Saltley
* Soho & Winson Green
* Soho Road
* Somerset Road
* Sutton Park
* Sutton Coldfield Town
* Winson Green

|

Coventry|

* Coundon Road
* Daimler Halt
* Foleshill
* Longford & Exhall

Dudley|

* Baptist End
* Blowers Green
* Brettell Lane
* Brierley Hill
* Brockmoor Halt
* Bromley Halt
* Darby End
* Dudley
* Gornal Halt
* Halesowen
* Harts Hill
* Old Hill High Street
* Pensnett Halt
* Round Oak
* Windmill End

Sandwell|

* Albion
* Great Bridge North
* Great Bridge South
* Newton Road
* Oldbury
* Princes End & Coseley
* Rood End
* Smethwick West
* Soho
* Spon Lane
* Swan Village
* Tipton Five Ways
* Wednesbury Central
* Wednesbury Town
* West Bromwich

Walsall|

* Aldridge
* Bentley
* Brownhills
* Brownhills Watling Street
* Darlaston
* Darlaston James Bridge
* North Walsall
* Pelsall
* Pleck
* Rushall
* Short Heath
* Streetly
* Walsall Wood
* Willenhall Bilston Street
* Willenhall Stafford Street
* Wood Green

Wolverhampton|

* Bilston Central
* Bilston West
* Bradley and Moxley
* Bushbury
* Compton Halt
* Daisy Bank
* Dunstall Park
* Ettingshall Road
* Heath Town
* Monmore Green
* Portobello
* Priestfield
* Stafford Road
* Tettenhall
* Wednesfield Heath for Wolverhampton
* Wednesfield
* Wolverhampton Low Level
* Wolverhampton Temporary

Heritage

* Tyseley, Warwick Road

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