Coseley railway station is located in the

Coseley Coseley ( ) is a village in the north of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, in the English West Midlands. Part of the Black Country, it is situated approximately north of Dudley itself, on the border with Wolverhampton. Though it is a part of ...

area of the borough of

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. It is situated on the Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford branch of the

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. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by

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History

The present Coseley station opened in 1902. It replaced an earlier station, named Deepfields and Coseley, which opened in 1852 and was situated along the track.

Services

Coseley is served by two train services per hour which are the local all stopping services to Walsall via Birmingham New Street. These services terminate at Wolverhampton on the return. Previously the station was served by trains to

Shrewsbury Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...

and

Liverpool Lime Street Liverpool Lime Street is a terminus railway station and the main station serving the city centre of Liverpool. Opened in August 1836, it is the oldest still-operating grand terminus mainline station in the world. A branch of the West Coast ...

but the stop on these services was withdrawn in 2020 due largely to the COVID-19 travel restrictions.

References

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Rail Around Birmingham: Coseley railway station
Railway stations in Dudley DfT Category E stations Former London and North Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1902 Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains {{WestMidlands-railstation-stub