Place Brownhills Grid reference SK039061 1884 Opened as Brownhills | Area Walsall Pre-grouping Midland Railway Platforms in use 2 | |
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Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway People also search for Walsall Wood railway station | ||
Brownhills Watling Street railway station was a station on the Midland Railway in England. It was opened in 1884. It closed in March 1930 for passenger use, and the track was closed in 1962.
It opened as simply Brownhills railway station, which was also the name of the other station within the town, which was operated by the London and North Western Railway on the South Staffordshire Line. The station was renamed in 1924.
The branch line that the station was situated on was planned to access the colliery traffic in the Cannock area and to link to the Cannock Chase and Wolverhampton Railway, and passenger traffic was a secondary consideration.
The line to the north of the station is now in use as part of the Chasewater Railway.
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