Pensnett Halt railway station

Pensnett Halt was a small railway stop on the Wombourne Branch Line. It was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1925 and closed in 1932.[1][2] The halt served the small town of Pensnett.

Pensnett Halt
Looking towards the site of Pensnett Halt from High Street road bridge.
General information
LocationPensnett, Dudley
England
Coordinates52°30′06″N 2°08′33″W / 52.5018°N 2.1425°W / 52.5018; -2.1425
Grid referenceSO904893
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
11 May 1925Opened[1]
31 October 1932Closed[1]

The sidings around the station survived until about 1994, thanks to the Perrier distribution centre. The line north of these sidings has now been lifted.

The trackbed between Gornal Halt and Pensnett Halt has become a wasteland with the bridge that took the line under High Street and towards Tansy Green Road being fenced off and has since been overgrown. At one point, the line from Pensnett Halt to Brockmoor Halt railway station became a footpath but has since been hardly used and is now overgrown with only the single track that carried the line to Gornal Halt still in situ and a steep, dangerous footpath from Gibbons Lane.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Gornal Halt   Great Western Railway
"The Wombourne Branch" (1925-1932)
  Bromley Halt

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Pensnett Halt". Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  2. ^ Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 337. OCLC 931112387.

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