History
The station was opened in 1852 on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton railway line, at a slightly different location to the present station, under the name of Stourbridge. The junction came about when the Stourbridge Railway built their line to Lye and beyond.
Stourbridge become a double junction on 1 October 1879 when the branch to Stourbridge Town and goods was opened.
On 1 October 1901 the new station opened 400 yards to the south of the original.
In 1962, the OWW was closed to passenger traffic north of Stourbridge by the British Transport Commission, although the route remained open for freight until 1993. Today only the section as far as the Round Oak Steel Terminal is still in use.
The station was previously a four platform station, comprising two island platforms. The southern divergence to Platform 1 was removed some years ago and platform 4, situated opposite to the current platform 3, now faces the car park - built on the station's old carriage sidings.
The station's signalbox closed on 24th August 2012, as part of a wider network modernisation programme to centralise signalling operations. The signals at the station are now controlled from the West Midlands Signalling Centre in Saltley, Birmingham.
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brettell Lane | Great Western Railway |
Terminus | ||
| Brettell Lane | Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway |
Hagley | ||
| Brettell Lane | South Staffordshire Railway |
Terminus | ||
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