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Disused railway lines and closed stations in West Midlands

West Midlands has 110 miles of disused railway and 100 closed stations, against 74 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 1.4 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Heath Town Junction to Walsall Lichfield Road Junction, with 5.8 miles of its route inside West Midlands.

See West Midlands’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 110 miles of lost railway in West Midlands break down as 68 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 29 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 12 miles with track still in place but no trains and 1.1 miles dismantled. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in West Midlands

38 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside West Midlands; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

LineMiles in county
Heath Town Junction to Walsall Lichfield Road Junction5.8
Halesowen Branch4.7
McClean Way4.4
Oxford Worcester and Wolverhampton Line4.3
Coventry Avoiding Line3.5
Wolverhampton Low Level - Birmingham Snow Hill3.2
Kingswinford Line2.7
Windmill End Branch2.7
Kingswinford Railway Walk2.7
Harborne Branch2.5
Princes End Branch2.5
Wednesbury to Darlaston Line2.5
Oldbury Branch2.2
Proof House Junction and Bushbury Junction Line2.1
Didcot and Chester Line2.1
Wolverhampton and Walsall Railway1.8
Dudley Junction to Pleck Junction Line1.7
Kenilworth and Berkswell Branch1.7
Leighswood Branch1.7
Norton Branch1.6
Wyken Branch1.6
Hampton-in-Arden to Whitacre Junction Line1.5
Mitchell's and Butler's Siding1.3
Langley Green Marshalling Yard1.2
Merry Hill Monorail0.9
Stourbridge Junction to Stourbridge Town Branch0.9
Birmingham Central Goods Branch0.8
Netherton Basin Branch0.8
South Staffordshire Railway Walk (The Track)0.7
Windsor Street Line0.7
South Staffordshire Line0.6
Bordesley Disused Branch0.6
Bilston Gas Works0.5
Washwood Heath Railway Works0.5
Birmingham Moor Street Line0.4
Bushbury Branch0.4
Wednesbury Goods Loop (Bescot)0.4
Munition Sidings0.3

Closed railway stations in West Midlands

All 100 closed and former stations in West Midlands, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in West Midlands

74 stations in West Midlands still have a train service. The busiest are Birmingham New Street (36.6 million a year), Birmingham Moor Street (7.1 million a year), Coventry (6.8 million a year), Wolverhampton (5.2 million a year) and Birmingham International (5.0 million a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Leicestershire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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