West Midlands Railway

The West Midlands Railway was an early British railway company. It was formed on 1 July 1860 by a merger of several older railway companies and amalgamated with the Great Western Railway on 1 August 1863.

History

Its constituent companies were the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway (incorporated 1846 and opened 1854), Worcester and Hereford Railway (inc 1853 and opened 1859), the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway and the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (inc 1845 and opened 1850; which had absorbed the Stratford and Morton Railway (inc 1821 and opened 1826).

According to the website "Rail Around Birmingham", quoted below, it was the successor to the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OWWR).

Round Oak station was opened by the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway in 1852 and succumbed to closure, along with the other stations (apart from Harts Hill which had closed in 1916) on the ex-OWWR between Dudley as far as Stourbridge Junction, in 1962. This was the third station south of Dudley and was later to come under the auspices of the GWR following its absorption of the successor to the OWWR, the West Midlands Railway, in 1863.

ee also

* Great Western Railway
* List of early British railway companies

ources

* Linked Wikipedia articles
* "Rail Around Birmingham" website

External links

* [http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/Stations/round_oak.php "Rail Around Birmingham" website]

References

cite web
last =
first =
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = GWR family tree
work = British Steam Railway
publisher =
date =
url = http://www.dukedog.co.uk/family%20tree.html
format =
doi =
accessdate = 2008-04-07