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Introduction

This line is open. It runs from Warrington to Birmingham. The line received its act on the 6th of May 1833 and opened in 1837. Today it forms part of the West Coast Main Line routes. In 1845 the company merged with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The line merged with the London and Birmingham Railway (opened 1838) and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway to form the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1846.






Dates

06/05/1833Grand Junction Railway
Line authorised.
  /  /1837Grand Junction Railway
Line opened.
  /  /1845Grand Junction RailwayLiverpool and Manchester Railway
Merge as the Grand Junction Railway.
31/12/1845Railway Clearing House
By this date, Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, Chester and Birmingham Railway?, Grand Junction Railway, Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Manchester and Birmingham Railway, Newcastle and Carlisle Railway and North Union Railway join.
01/01/1846London and North Western Railway
London and Birmingham Railway, Grand Junction Railway and Manchester and Birmingham Railway merge to form the London and North Western Railway.
  /  /1970Caledonian Railway Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Lancaster and Preston JunctionRailway Preston and Wigan Railway Wigan Branch Railway Warrington and Newton Railway Grand Junction Railway
Weaver Junction (south of Warrington) to Glasgow electrification authorised.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.




Birmingham Curzon Street

This was not one station but two; the parallel termini of the London and Birmingham Railway (from 9 April 1838) and the Grand Junction Railway (from 19 November 1838, replacing the temporary Birmingham [Vauxhall] of 4 July 1837). The stations, originally called simply Birmingham, were built on the then eastern edge of the city. The station was replaced by Birmingham New Street, a ...

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London and Birmingham Railway
Progress on Birmingham's HS2 station, seen from a passing HST in July 2023. ...
Ken Strachan 28/07/2023
The vast site in the centre of Birmingham at Curzon Street, being prepared for the now truncated HS2, seen from a Railway Touring Company steam ...
David Bosher 11/12/2021
The signs are good - and there are some mysterious piles of earth. Hopefully, HS2 will call here in a few years. Grab shot from a train coming into ...
Ken Strachan 16/05/2019
Seen from a passing train on 18 June 2009, the remaining building of Birmingham Curzon St station, the first terminus of the line from Euston. This is ...
John McIntyre 18/06/2009
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Lawley Street Junction

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Birmingham New Street Extension (London and North Western Railway)





Lawley Street

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Birmingham [Vauxhall]

This was the temporary Birmingham terminus of the Grand Junction Railway from 1837 to 1838 when the line was extended into Birmingham [Curzon Street] to meet the London and Birmingham Railway. The terminus was south west of the later Vauxhall (now Duddeston) station.
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Duddeston

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You see, you can have snow in March - and in England. The 14.07 to Redditch passes a well covered platform at Duddeston back in 2013. (See also image ...
Ken Strachan 24/03/2013
The 14.12 London Midland service to Lichfield Trent Valley (ex-Redditch) approaches the platform at Duddeston just before Easter 2013. See image ...
Ken Strachan 24/03/2013
A large helping of the deep and crisp and even, please. It may look like Christmas, but this is the weekend before Easter as a class 323 forms the ...
Ken Strachan 24/03/2013
The remains of the old carriage shed at Duddeston, looking north west from the station in March 2013. The central roof section is no more - rumoured ...
Ken Strachan 24/03/2013
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Bloomsbury and Nechets

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Aston

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Sutton Coldfield Branch (London and North Western Railway)





Witton

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Perry Barr

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Arrival at Perry Barr, Birmingham in 1980. The use of headcodes (in this case 2P73) had been discontinued on these services from July 1979. ...
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Perry Barr Junction

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Soho Line (London and North Western Railway)





Hamstead

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The busy Hamstead station in the West Midlands lying midway between Walsall and Birmingham pictured here in 1983. The original station, opened by the ...
Ian Dinmore //1983
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Hamstead and Great Barr,Great Barr [1st]

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Newton Road [3rd]

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Newton Road [2nd]

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Tame Bridge Parkway

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Bescot Stadium

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Dudley to Lichfield (South Staffordshire Railway)





Wood Green (Old Bescot)

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Darlaston

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Dudley to Lichfield (South Staffordshire Railway)
Darlaston Loop (South Stafforshire Railway)





Darlaston (Goods)

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Willenhall Bilston Street

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Portobello [GJR]

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Portobello Junction [GJR]

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Wednesfield Heath

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Bushbury

This was an exchange station immediately south of Bushbury Junction opened by the London and North Western Railway on the former Grand Junction Railway where it was met by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway.
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Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway





Bushbury Junction

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Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Stour Valley Railway





Four Ashes

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Gailey

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Penkridge

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Penkridge has not got many features but this Pendolino rattles the shutters on the disused station building as it heads for Wolverhampton. See 18690 ...
Mark Bartlett 27/07/2008
A tired villa, shutters drawn? No, Penkridge station building on the up platform. A building so close to the edge of the platform that the yellow line ...
Ewan Crawford 14/04/2008
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Trent Valley Junction

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Trent Valley Railway (London and North Western Railway)





Stafford

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Wellington to Safford (Shropshire Union Railways and Canal)
Cross Country Voyagers call at Stafford on 17th October 2019. The one on the left is heading to Manchester while the other is heading south to ...
John McIntyre 17/10/2019
DRS 88004 passes Stafford while working the Mossend to Daventry intermodal service on 17 October 2019. ...
John McIntyre 17/10/2019
Approaching Stafford from Stafford Trent Valley Jct on 17 October 2019 is a Cross Country Voyager heading to Manchester Piccadilly. ...
John McIntyre 17/10/2019
A Pendolino on the down fast passes a Euston-bound set stopped at platform 1. The weather in Stafford is not always so clement see image 30491 ...
Ken Strachan 16/04/2016
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Great Bridgeford

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Bridgeford

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Norton Bridge [2nd]

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Norton Bridge [1st]

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Norton Bridge Junction

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North Staffordshire Railway
View looking south to Norton Bridge Junction, Staffordshire, in April 2008. The route to the left is to Stone and Stoke-on-Trent, that in the ...
Ewan Crawford 14/04/2008
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Standon Bridge

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Whitmore

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Looking north towards Crewe over the site of the former Whitmore station in 2003. ...
Ewan Crawford 11/07/2003
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Whitmore Watertroughs

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Madeley [GJR]

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Betley Road

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Basford [GJR]

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Basford Hall Junction

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Activity on the WCML on 1 October 2020 about a mile south of Basford Hall Junction, with a London bound Pendolino on the Up Fast and a GBRF Washwood ...
John McIntyre 01/10/2020
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Crewe South Junction

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North Staffordshire Railway





Crewe

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Crewe 2 May 2018. ...
John Yellowlees 02/05/2018
A TfW service from Manchester to Cardiff with 175011 calls at Crewe in the afternoon of 17 October 2019. ...
John McIntyre 17/10/2019
Virgin Voyager 221118 from Chester to Euston calls at Crewe on 17th October 2019. Across the tracks London Northwestern 350128 waits in one of the bay ...
John McIntyre 17/10/2019
Northern EMU 323235 arrives at Crewe (platform 1) on 17 October 2019 with a service from Manchester. ...
John McIntyre 17/10/2019
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Crewe North Junction

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Chester and Crewe Railway
Looking North from the signal box in Crewe Heritage Centre in April 2015 see image 20362 the meagre remains of the narrow gauge works railway can ...
Ken Strachan 03/04/2015
It takes more than one to play this piano. The early electric panel, now out of use, at Crewe Heritage Centre in April 2015. See image 20362 ...
Ken Strachan 03/04/2015
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Crewe Coal Yard Junction

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Minchull Vernon

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Winsford

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Winsford Branch (Cheshire Lines Committee)
The station frontage at Winsford. ...
Veronica Clibbery 07/09/2017
Freightliner's class 66 66570 is seen held at signals south of Winsford Station on a northbound intermodal working, possibly en route to Mossend after ...
David Pesterfield 09/09/2009
Freightliner duo 86614 & 86605 are seen being overtaken by a northbound Virgin Pendolino whilst held at signals south of Winsford Station on 1 ...
David Pesterfield 01/09/2009
DRS 66419 waits at signals near Winsford on 24 November 2009 with a John G Russell return working to Scotland from Daventry International Rail Freight ...
David Pesterfield 24/11/2009
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Winsford Junction

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Over and Wharton Branch (London and North Western Railway)





Hartford

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390043 speeds through Hartford with a Liverpool to Euston service on 10th May 2023. The train has just left the short four track section between ...
Mark Bartlett 10/05/2023
Just to the north of Hartford station the Chester to Altrincham line crosses the WCML. There is only an hourly Sprinter service on this section of the ...
Mark Bartlett 10/05/2023
Edge Hill Black 5 45421 southbound at Hartford, Cheshire, in the summer of 1960. [Ref query 4427] ...
David Stewart 01/08/1960
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Hartford Junction

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Acton Bridge

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350102 leads a LNW eight-car train on a Liverpool Lime Street to Birmingham New St on 10th May 2023. The EMU is slowing to call at Acton Bridge. The ...
Mark Bartlett 10/05/2023
350129 and 250 pull away from Acton Bridge after calling at this Cheshire station with a LNW service from Birmingham New Street to Liverpool Lime ...
Mark Bartlett 10/05/2023
The Northenden to Folly Lane (Runcorn) 'Binliner' containers, heading north through Acton Bridge on 27 July 2015 behind Freightliner 66551. ...
Ken Browne 27/07/2015
All quiet on the West Coast Main Line on 06 May 2018 at Acton Bridge. With a possession in place there was nothing to see here so I moved along. The ...
John McIntyre 06/05/2018
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Weaver Junction

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390103 passes Weaver Junction on 10th May 2023 with a Euston to Liverpool service. The Pendolino has already left the Down WCML track and is beginning ...
Mark Bartlett 10/05/2023
The underbridges at Weaver Junction, looking westwards, on 10th May 2023. The far bridge carries three tracks, one being the Down Line to Liverpool. ...
Mark Bartlett 10/05/2023
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Preston Brook

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No trace remains of the small station at Preston Brook, which closed to passengers in 1948 and to goods ten years later. However, just behind the ...
Mark Bartlett 10/05/2023
The TransPennine franchise is to return to public ownership on 28th May 2023 through the Operator of Last Resort system. The day before the ...
Mark Bartlett 10/05/2023
GBRf 66740 passes through the cutting at Preston Brook, with cement tanks from Clitheroe to Avonmouth, on 10th May 2023. The train has just passed ...
Mark Bartlett 10/05/2023
Viewed from the towpath on the Norton Aqueduct, 390153 has just passed under the Bridgwater Canal and is heading for Euston from Glasgow on 10th May ...
Mark Bartlett 10/05/2023
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Moore Watertroughs

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Moore

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A Blackpool to Euston Pendolino approaches the site of long closed Moore station as it heads south, soon after crossing the Manchester Ship Canal on ...
Mark Bartlett 10/05/2023
The Grand Junction Railway opened a station at Moore in 1837 but it was closed by the LMS in 1943. The platforms and buildings have been removed but ...
Mark Bartlett 10/05/2023
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Warrington Bank Quay

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In a surprise visit to Warrington Bank Quay Station, Boris Johnson handed a 'Heart of Gold' award to Jennifer Birdsall, a Customer Service Assistant ...
Avanti West Coast 18/11/2021
Against the well-known backdrop of Crosfield's detergent works, an Avanti Pendolino arrives with a service from Lancaster to London Euston on 12 ...
Malcolm Chattwood 12/08/2023
The very last vacuum brake only class 40 in service was 40009, seen here at Warrington Bank Quay on what I think was a empty rail set for Castleton. ...
Roger Geach 24/04/1984
DB 59206 approaches Warrington Bank Quay station with a coal train heading to Fiddlers Ferry power station in March 2010. The power station has now ...
John McIntyre 03/03/2010
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