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Stourbridge Junction is one of two railway stations serving the town of Stourbridge, in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England.It lies on the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line and is the junction for the Stourbridge Town Branch Line, said to be the shortest operational branch line in Europe.
Kidderminster station opened with the extension of the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway from Worcester to Stourbridge on 1 May 1852. It became an important intermediate station on the line which became part of the West Midland Railway in 1860, which in turn amalgamated with the Great Western Railway and the South Wales Railway on 1 August 1863.
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Worcester Foregate Street: 1860 [19] Worcester: Great Western Railway West Midlands Railway 1,358,222 534,904 2,190,982 Worcester Shrub Hill: 1852 [20] Worcester Great Western Railway West Midlands Railway 409,540 161,288 660,638 Worcestershire Parkway: 2020 [21] Worcester Great Western Railway CrossCountry: 314,894 32,350 25,478 Wythall: 1908 ...
The first railway station at Kidderminster was opened by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OW&WR) in 1852. It became an important intermediate station on the line which became part of the West Midland Railway in 1860. In turn, the WMR was absorbed intro the Great Western Railway (GWR) between 1863 and 1870.
Droitwich Spa railway station serves the town of Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire, England. It is located just to the south-west of Droitwich Spa Junction of the Worcester to Leamington Spa Line and the Worcester to Birmingham New Street line. The station is managed by West Midlands Trains, who also operate all trains serving it.
The station is served by West Midlands Railway on the Snow Hill Lines. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Services operate every 30 minutes in each direction. 2 trains per hour run westbound to Birmingham Snow Hill , continuing to Worcester Foregate Street and/or Worcester Shrub Hill via Smethwick Galton Bridge , Stourbridge Junction , Kidderminster and Droitwich Spa
Bewdley railway station. The junction with the Severn Valley Railway at Bewdley connected southwards, towards Droitwich Spa, and now much energy was expended in creating a shorter route to Birmingham. This was referred to as the Bewdley Curve or Bewdley Loop, although it was a line of three miles in length between Bewdley and Kidderminster.