Stourbridge Junction
Stourbridge Junction 
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Stourbridge Junction in 2000, looking north.
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| Location | |
| Place | Stourbridge |
| Local authority | Dudley |
| Coordinates | 52°26′53″N 2°08′02″W / 52.448°N 2.134°WCoordinates: 52°26′53″N 2°08′02″W / 52.448°N 2.134°W |
| Grid reference | SO909833 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | SBJ |
| Managed by | London Midland |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| DfT category | D |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2012/13 |
 1.216 million |
| 2013/14 |
1.276 million |
| 2014/15 |
1.324 million |
| 2015/16 |
1.434 million |
| 2016/17 |
1.467 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Transport for West Midlands |
| Zone | 5 |
| History | |
| Original company | Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| 1 May 1852 | First station opened as Stourbridge |
| 1 October 1879 | Renamed Stourbridge Junction; line to Stourbridge Town opens |
| 1 October 1901 | Station resited |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Stourbridge Junction from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Stourbridge Junction is one of two railway stations serving the town of Stourbridge, in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England. It lies on the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line and is the junction for the Stourbridge Town Branch Line, said to be the shortest operational branch line in Europe. The other station serving Stourbridge is Stourbridge Town at the end of the branch line.
The station was opened in 1852 on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway line, at a slightly different location to the present station, under the name of Stourbridge. The junction came about when the Stourbridge Railway built their line to Lye and beyond.
Stourbridge become a double junction on 1 October 1879 when the branch to Stourbridge Town and goods was opened.
On 1 October 1901 the new station opened 400 yards (370 m) to the south of the original.
In 1962, the OWW was closed to passenger traffic north of Stourbridge by the British Transport Commission, although the route remained open for freight until 1993. Only the section as far as the Round Oak Steel Terminal is still in use.
All through services to Birmingham were diverted from Snow Hill to Birmingham New Street in 1967 in the wake of the Beeching Report, but mostly reverted to their previous route following the reopening of the Smethwick Junction to Snow Hill line in 1995. Certain Birmingham - Worcester/Hereford trains calling here continued to use the connection onto the Stour Valley line at Galton Junction until the May 2004 timetable change, but there are now no timetabled direct services to New Street and passengers wishing to access main line services there must either change at Galton Bridge or make the transfer between Snow Hill & New Street on foot.
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