Looking towards Great Bridge South station site

Great Bridge South railway station was a station on a link line between the South Staffordshire Line and the

Birmingham Snow Hill-Wolverhampton Low Level Line The Birmingham Snow Hill to Wolverhampton Low Level Line was part of the Great Western Railway's London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside route. As the name suggests, it ran between Birmingham Snow Hill and Wolverhampton Low Level in England. ...

. It served the village of Great Bridge and town of

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in Staffordshire,

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. It was opened in 1866. As with many passenger stations, it closed during the years of the

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but reopened in 1920 and remained operational until British Rail closed the station through the Beeching Axe in 1964. Despite another station existing in Great Bridge from 1866, the station was not given the name of South until after nationalisation in 1950. The station site is now a housing estate while much of the railway alignment was reused for the Black Country Spine Road.

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Disused railway stations in Sandwell Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964 Beeching closures in England 1866 establishments in England Former Great Western Railway stations {{WestMidlands-railstation-stub