Sandwell & Dudley is a stop on the West Coast Main Line in the West Midlands between
Smethwick Galton Bridge and
Dudley Port.
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A LNWR train prepares to depart |
Information |
Type: |
National Rail
(West Coast Main Line) |
Station code: |
SAD |
Opened: |
1852 |
Platforms: |
2 |
The station was opened as
Oldbury and Bromford Lane by the Birmingham, Wolverhampton & Stour Valley Railway (later the London North Western Railway) in 1852. The station later becoming just
Oldbury. The station was rebuilt and enlarged for intercity traffic (long enough for thirteen coach trains [1]) in 1983 and renamed Sandwell and Dudley (though the name
Oldbury International was considered and even used on some early announcements after reopening [2]). The station was rebuilt in the plain brickwalls and mono-pitch roof style common to British Rail in the 1980s, sometimes called neovernacular [3].
[3] David Lawrence, British Rail Architecture 1948-97 (Crecy, 2018) p. 155