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Streetly Station

LMS Route: Water Orton to Walsall

As with the other four stations built by the Midland Railway on its Walsall to Water Orton Branch line, Streetly Station opened on 1st July 1879. Disappointingly for the Midland Railway it never fulfilled its potential and finally closed to passengers on 16th January 1965 when the line became a major goods-only concern. Access by road to Streetly Station was located at the corner of Foley Road and Thornhill Road, and like the stations at Penns and Aldridge had a standardised building on the 'up' platform to Birmingham. Styled like two large cottages, the building included the booking office and ladies' waiting room. A small brick shelter and a Signal Box stood on the 'down' platform. There was no goods shed or yard at Streetly. Initially built with three platforms, an island structure being found on the up line, it was reduced to two platforms sometime in the early part of the twentieth century. The high point of the twilight years of the Sutton Park line came in 1957, when in August Sutton Park hosted the Scout Movement's 'World Jubilee Jamboree', with special trains arriving from 29th July and the event itself taking place between 1st - 12th August. The Jamboree was also open to the public, and there was a special Sutton Park local steam-hauled service, with an hourly all-stations service between Birmingham New Street and Walsall, and an all stations Sutton Park - Walsall - Dudley service every two hours. Sadly, after the last scouts left on 14th August, the line entered a long period of neglect, and it was finally closed at the height of the Beeching era of railway cuts in January 1965. Streetly Station itself was later converted into a garage workshop and was about to be demolished in 1996 to make way for flats.

Looking towards Aldridge with the up platform on left and the main station building on the right
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A Neath Collection
Looking towards Aldridge with the up platform on left and the main station building on the right
An unidentified MR tank locomotive stands at the down platform on a local passenger service to New Street station
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A Neath Collection
An unidentified MR tank locomotive stands at the down platform on a local passenger service to New Street station
Close up showing the Midland Railway Type 1 standardised signal box erected when the station opened in 1879
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A Neath Collection
Close up showing the Midland Railway Type 1 standardised signal box erected when the station opened in 1879
Close up showing the unidentified MR tank engine at the head of a rake of clerestory coaching stock
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A Neath Collection
Close up showing the unidentified MR tank engine at the head of a rake of clerestory coaching stock
Looking towards Walsall with Hardwick Road bridge seen in the distance with the island platform in the centre
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A Neath Collection
Looking towards Walsall with Hardwick Road bridge seen in the distance with the island platform in the centre

LMS 4F 0-6-0 No 4069 is seen working tender first at the head of an engineer's ballast train one Sunday in the 1930s
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ES Russell
LMS 4F 0-6-0 No 4069 is seen working tender first at the head of an engineer's ballast train one Sunday in the 1930s
Close up showing LMS 4F 0-6-0 No 4069 coupled to a Midland Brake Van and six-wheel coach
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ES Russell
Close up showing the LMS 4F 0-6-0 No 4069 coupled to a Midland Brake Van and six-wheel coach
Ex-LMS 4MT 2-6-4T No 42482 at the head of a down six-coach passenger service during 1953
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A Neath Collection
Ex-LMS 4MT 2-6-4T No 42482 heads a down passenger service past Streetly Station in 1953
Ex-LMS 5MT 4-6-0 No 45333 passes through the station with empty coaching stock during August 1957
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M Mensing
Ex-LMS 5MT 4-6-0 No 45333 passes through the station with empty coaching stock during August 1957
LMS railway photo
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Ordnance Survey Maps
Pre-World War One Ordnance Survey Map showing access to Streetly station from Thornhill Road