The Way We Were: Last Day at Smethwick West 1996

            Centro Class 150 'Sprinter' passes through Smethwick West on 28th September 1996 with a Jewellery Line service for Stourbridge Junction. This was its last day, and I had the privilege of locking up the station building for the last time following the departure of the last train, the one train per week Parliamentary Service to Hereford. The station should have closed in 1995, but an administration error meant it was to survive for a further 12 months. My notes say this was not that last train, but whether it was before or after the the final stopper I cannot say. Note that the Class 150 had just called at the nearby, and then new Smethwick Galton Bridge, which opened with the Jewellery Line in 1995, and was the reason for Smethwick West's demise. The track curving away to the right lead to Galton Junction, on the electrified Birmingham to Wolverhampton Stour Valley Line. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
   

Taken in: UK / England / Sandwell District (show map)

Taken on: September 28, 1996

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