Smethwick Galton Bridge (SGB)

Smethwick Galton Bridge is a stop on the Jewellery Line between Langley Green and The Hawthorns and the West Coast Main Line between Smethwick Rolfe Street and Sandwell & Dudley.

TfW 158 841 departs with a Wales bound service

Information
Type:	National Rail (Jewellery Line & West Coast Main Line)
Station code:	SGB
Opened:	1995
Platforms:	4

The station was opened in 1995 [1] as part of the Jewellery Line scheme to restore services between Smethwick and the re-opened Birmingham Snow Hill. The station is a split-level station where the Jewellery Line and West Coast Main Line from Birmingham New Street to Wolverhampton cross (though on different levels, the WCML on the lower level). The station takes it's name from the adjacent Galton Bridge over the Birmingham New Main Line canal.

The station is managed by West Midlands Railway who operate most services which serve the station. It is also served by Transport for Wales, London Northwestern Railway and Chiltern Railways.

A LM 350 passes through

View from the lower level platforms, the bridge carries the Jewellery Line

LM 172 338 on the upper level

Smethwick Galton Bridge as viewed from Galton Bridge!

In ATW days 158 838 stops on the lower level

[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Birmingham to Wolverhampton via Tipton (Middleton Press, 2008) Fig. 59