Place Wood Green, Wednesbury Original company Grand Junction Railway | Grid reference SO998965 Platforms in use 2 | |
Area Metropolitan Borough of Walsall Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1837 Opened as Bescot Bridge Similar Newton Road railway st, Hockley (Birmingham) railway st, Icknield Port Road railway st, Brownhills Watling Street rail | ||
Wood Green (Old Bescot) railway station was a railway station built on the Grand Junction Railway in 1837. It served the Wood Green area of Wednesbury, and was located near to where junction 9 of the M6 motorway has been located since the late 1960s.
It originally opened as Bescot Bridge, and was the Grand Junction Railway's main station for Walsall. As such, it was also known as Walsall station. Bescot Bridge station closed in 1850. The new Wood Green (Old Bescot) Station was opened on the same site in 1881. The station closed in 1941.
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