Soho Road
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
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