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Soho Road

LMS Route: Birmingham - Soho - Perry Barr - Birmingham

Soho Road station opened in 1889, a year after the line was opened to goods traffic, under the LNWR on a new stretch of track laid to provide a useful link between the LNWR's New Street to Wolverhampton High Level and their New Street to Walsall (the old Grand Junction) route.

Primarily envisaged for goods traffic, especially for servicing the coal mines around Perry Barr and Great Barr/Hamstead, the two passenger stations added - Soho Road and Handsworth Wood - were in competition with the GWR more direct route between Wolverhampton and Birmingham.

Consequently with the commencement of the Second World War, which required the railways to be efficient with scarce resources and labour, the two stations were closed never to re-open although the route remains open to this day.

Andy Doherty

Select an image below to view the larger version with accompanying text:

LNWR 4-4-0 on a Walsaal to New Street local passenger service
Ref: lnwrsoho1521 - Anon
LNWR 4-4-0 on a Walsaal to New Street local passenger service
LMS railway photo
Ref: lnwrsoho1517 - DJ Norton
Looking towards Perry Barr with the down line on the left
Looking towards Perry Barr along the up line
Ref: lnwrsoho1518 - DJ Norton
Looking towards Perry Barr along the up line

Looking towards the station in the distance
Ref: lnwrsoho1519 - DJ Norton
Looking towards the station in the distance
LMS railway photo
Ref: soho_rd_map - Andy Doherty