Oldbury Railway

The Oldbury Railway began as the Dudley and Oldbury Junction Railway Company, incorporated on July 21, 1873, to build a short branch from Langley Green to Oldbury in England's West Midlands; it took the Oldbury Railway name on August 11, 1881, and the Great Western Railway fully absorbed it on July 31, 1894. The line opened for goods traffic in 1884 and added passenger service the following year, mainly serving local factories including the Albright and Wilson chemical works' Oldbury division. Its passenger station closed in 1916 during the First World War and never reopened, though goods traffic continued until the M5 motorway's construction severed the line in the 1960s; the surviving northern stub carried freight until 1996, when the whole route was decommissioned. The old Oldbury station site is now a Mecca Bingo hall, though the bridge over the Titford Canal and some track infrastructure remain. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/