Sandwell & Dudley railway station

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General information
Location	Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell
Coordinates	52.508637°N 2.011776°W / 52.508637; -2.011776
Managed by	West Midlands Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	SAD
Fare zone	4
Key dates
1852	Opened as Oldbury and Bromford Lane
1983	Rebuilt and renamed Sandwell and Dudley

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. The name of the station is somewhat misleading; the station is actually located between West Bromwich and Oldbury, and not near Dudley. The nearest station to the town of Dudley is actually Dudley Port.

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 and equipped with longer platforms capable of handling long-distance intercity trains.

Services

The station today is operated by West Midlands Railway on behalf of Transport for West Midlands. Services are provided by Avanti West Coast and West Midlands Railway.

Current Services are as follows:

• 2tph West Midlands Railway stopping services each to Wolverhampton and Walsall via Birmingham New Street and Aston.
• 1tph West Midlands Railway services each to Birmingham New Street and to Shrewsbury calling at all stations between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury.
• 1tph Avanti West Coast services - one to either Glasgow Central or Edinburgh Waverley (alternate hours) via Crewe & Preston and the other to London Euston via Birmingham New Street, Birmingham International, Coventry and Milton Keynes Central. At peak times additional services start/terminate at Wolverhampton.

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

External links

• Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Sandwell and Dudley station

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Birmingham New Street		Avanti West Coast West Coast Main Line		Wolverhampton
		West Midlands Railway Birmingham-Shrewsbury
Smethwick Galton Bridge		West Midlands Railway Wolverhampton-Birmingham/Walsall		Dudley Port
		London Northwestern Railway Birmingham-Liverpool