Rushall railway station (England)

Rushall railway station was a station serving the villages of Blakenall Heath and Rushall in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, England. It was on the South Staffordshire Line between Walsall and Lichfield.

Rushall
Site of the former station on 2013
General information
LocationBlakenall Heath and Rushall, Walsall
England
Coordinates52°36′25″N 1°58′06″W / 52.6069°N 1.9683°W / 52.6069; -1.9683
Grid referenceSK022010
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companySouth Staffordshire Railway
Pre-groupingLondon and North Western Railway
Key dates
9 April 1849Opened[1]
1 March 1909Closed[1]

History

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It was opened in 1849.[1] It was the first station to fall on the line, closing in 1909.[1][2] The station was built and served by the South Staffordshire Railway, which later became London, Midland and Scottish Railway (through amalgamation of the London and North Western Railway).

The station was situated on a level crossing in Harden Road, roughly on the border of Walsall and Bloxwich townships. Trains continued to pass through the site more than 70 years after the station's closure, with the line remaining open to goods trains until December 1983. It is preserved in case the railway line between Walsall and Lichfield reopens.

Station site today

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All evidence of the former station site and the level crossing including the signal box have been wiped away by the former crossing forming part of Station and Harden Road. The trackbed on both ends are now pedestrian footpaths with the site of the level crossing now part of a road realignment. The southern end of the trackbed from Walsall to Rushall is the end of the footpath with the rest of the trackbed to Ryecroft Junction being heavily overgrown.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Pelsall   South Staffordshire Railway
Later LNWR, then LMS, finally BR
South Staffs Line (1849-1965)
  Walsall

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Rushall Station". Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  2. ^ Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.