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Halesowen Railway

Dropacog said:
Talking of the Halesowen line, if you have Facebook, check out the 'Rubery Station' page .... the remains of the station platforms and foundations of the building have been part-revealed, the area tidied up and scrub cleared. Great effort by all those involved. We even found some of the glazed white tiling from the gents' urinal :)
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Good to hear, I'll check it out.
 
Picture taken 1955.

(1997) A century of railways around Birmingham and the West Midlands : a personal selection. Vol. 2

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When the railway was first built (1883) Longbridge was a very small village. According to Macdermot's "History of the GWR", the railway went from Haleowen to Northfield junction. Would they have had separate tracks to Northfield, or was Longbridge just so small as to be ignored. It would be interesting to view a c 1889 map ,, which we could have done on the old maps site, but unfortunately is not (yet?) available on the NLS site
 
This might have something to do with it as well. From https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/longbridge.htm :

Longbridge Station​

A station at Longbridge on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway opened on 15th November 1841, but this was short lived and had closed by 1849. When the Halesowen Railway was opened on Monday 10th September 1883, there was no station at Longbridge on either railway. An additional platform was to have been constructed at Northfield Station to act as an interchange with the Midland Railway, but the early Great Western Railway passenger services from Old Hill all terminated at Rubery, while the Midland Railway passenger services operated between Kings Norton and Halesowen. Only after the rapid expansion of the Austin Motor works during the First World War was a platform constructed on the Halesowen Railway at a position 26 chains from the Midland Railway’s main line junction and this was specifically for the workers. At the same time extensive private sidings for the works were also under construction paid for by the government.
 
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“Passenger trains between Halesowen & Kings Norton stopped at Rubery. There were 5 trains per day. It was necessary to change trains at Kings Norton to get to Birmingham. This passenger service ended in 1919 but the line did not actually close until July 6th 1964. It was used for goods trains and a works service to Longbridge.”

A Postcard from the Lickeys.
 
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