Area Guide For Oldbury

Oldbury is a town in the West Midlands in England. It is a piece of the Black Country, and the regulatory focal point of the district of Sandwell. At the 2011 evaluation, the ward of Oldbury had a populace of 13,606, while the more extensive fabricated up territory had a populace of 23,964.[1] However, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council give the populace figure of Oldbury as 50,641. For more than thirty years there were three line stations in the area named Oldbury; one and only is still open, however under another name. The most established surviving one is on the Stour Valley Line (previous LMS Railway), at Bromford Road. It has been there since the 1850s. It was initially called Oldbury & Bromford Lane Station, then Oldbury Station, however it is currently known as Sandwell and Dudley. The second closest track station to the core of Oldbury is at Langley Green, at Western Road, on the Stourbridge Extension Line, now the Birmingham to Worcester by means of Kidderminster Line. It opened in April 1867 and was initially called Langley Green & Rood End Station. However a short half-mile long extension line, the Oldbury Railway, was connected to the station with its own (third) stage. It opened in November 1884; and Langley Green & Rood End Station was then renamed Langley Green. The Oldbury Railway, which additionally connected to Albright and Wilson, had both a traveler station, called Oldbury line station, on Halesowen Road; and a merchandise station, Oldbury Goods route station, at the Birmingham Canal Navigations wharf in Oldbury. Traveler administrations rushed to Oldbury Station until March 1915; and the line shut totally other than as a cargo line for Albright and Wilson. All hints of its viaduct and dike past Tat Bank Road were annihilated when the M5 motorway was assembled. The M5 has served Oldbury since 1964 and passes the town on a lifted area based on fortified solid columns. Access is from intersection 2. This is additionally the closest intersection to the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley.