Sandwell and Dudley railway station

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Sandwell and Dudley National Rail
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Location
Place Oldbury
Local authority Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell
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Grid reference SO992900
Operations
Station code SAD
Managed by London Midland
Number of platforms 2
DfT category D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11 Increase 0.596 million
2011/12 Increase 0.701 million
2012/13 Increase 0.736 million
2013/14 Increase 0.789 million
2014/15 Increase 0.832 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE West Midlands
Zone 4
History
1852 Opened as Oldbury and Bromford Lane
1983 Rebuilt and renamed Sandwell and Dudley
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Sandwell and Dudley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Sandwell and Dudley railway station is on the Birmingham Loop of the West Coast Main Line, on the outskirts of Oldbury town centre on Bromford Lane (the main route towards West Bromwich, West Midlands), England.

It was originally opened as 'Oldbury' in 1852 and was one of two stations in the town. The more centrally located Great Western Railway Oldbury was located on the site of the bingo hall opposite the Sainsburys supermarket and was the only station on the GWR's Oldbury Branch Line from Langley Green.

However, in 1984 it was rebuilt as a railway station designed to serve the metropolitan boroughs of Sandwell and Dudley with a new name to suit. It was equipped with longer platforms capable of handling long-distance intercity trains.

Services

The station today is operated by London Midland on behalf of Centro. Services are provided by Virgin Trains and London Midland.

Current Services are as follows:

Both platforms have lifts, making the station fully accessible to people in wheelchairs.

Notes

  1. GB National Rail Timetable 2013-14, Table 65

External links

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Birmingham New Street   London Midland
Birmingham-Shrewsbury
  Wolverhampton
Smethwick Galton Bridge   London Midland
Wolverhampton-Birmingham/Walsall
  Dudley Port
Birmingham New Street   Virgin Trains
West Coast Main Line
  Wolverhampton