Stourbridge Junction is a stop on the Birmingham-Worcester Line between Lye and Hagley, as well as being a terminus of the Stourbridge Town Branch.
WMR 172 219 departs for Worcester
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Birmingham-Worcester Line & Stourbridge Town Branch)
Station code:
SBJ
Opened:
1852
Platforms:
3
The first station was opened as Stourbridge by the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway in 1852 in a different location to the current station. This replaced the original station in 1901, being about 370m to the South of the old station. A branch was built to Smethwick in the 1860s by the Stourbridge Railway, this was taken over by the GWR and later went on to become the current line to Birmingham Snow Hill. The branch line to Stourbridge Town was opened in 1879.
The station had four platforms on two islands. Three are still in use but the fourth platform is now closed, the carriage sidings which used to face it form the station's carpark. Access between the platforms and the ticket hall and station exit is via a subway (the original station had a footbridge [1]).
The station is managed by West Midlands Railway. The station has regular services between Birmingham Snow Hill and Kidderminster / Worcester. There is also a shuttle to Stourbridge Town every ten minutes which is operated by the unique Class 139. Chiltern Railways also stop at Stourbridge Junction during peak hours with services to London Marylebone.
Platform 1, only one side of the island is now in use
View down platform 1, the steps lead down to the subway...
...and here are the steps
A WMR 172 departs Birmingham bound
WMR 139 001 on platform 3
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Worcester to Birmingham (Middleton Press, 2007) Fig. 49
