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Halesowen Railway : ウィキペディア英語版 | Halesowen Railway
The Halesowen Railway, also known as the Halesowen and Northfield Railway and the Halesowen Joint Railway, was a standard gauge railway in what is now the West Midlands of England. It connected the Great Western Railway's branch from Old Hill to Halesowen (opened 1878) with the Midland Railway’s Birmingham to Gloucester line at Longbridge Junction (formerly known as Halesowen Junction) near the present Longbridge station. The term "Halesowen Railway" is sometimes applied to the whole line between Old Hill and Longbridge but, strictly, it applies only to the portion south of Halesowen. ==Opening== The Great Western Railway (GWR) opened their branch to from (on the line between and ) on 1 March 1878. The new branch was long from the junction at Old Hill, and on the same day, the GWR also opened the link between Old Hill and ,〔 the latter being on the line from Stourbridge Junction to . Construction of the line between Halesowen and started in 1878 and the railway opened as the Halesowen and Northfield Railway on 10 September 1883. It later became the Halesowen Joint Railway - a joint operation between the Great Western and Midland Railways. It became jointly owned by the GWR and the London Midland & Scottish Railway in 1923 and British Railways in 1948.
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