Midland Area Stations

Just to make it clear straight away, this is not a page dedicated to stations of the Midland Railway! It is for stations in the counties that surrounded Birmingham when my father was taking his photographs. Of course, since he was an LMS fan it may just be the case that the stations pictured in this section of the site were old Midland Railway stations but that is purely coincidental!

When I looked at the counties that were commonly defined as being included in 'The Midlands' I was surprised to find that the area included such counties as Buckinghamshire and Cheshire. I originally selected the three counties that surrounded and included Birmingham before the West Midlands was created in 1974 on the grounds that these were the places that my father was able to visit easily and frequently and to expand on the existing Birmingham and Local Stations pages. Later, I decided to add Herefordshire and Gloucestershire as these counties were close to his later home of Ledbury.

Staffordshire	Warwickshire	Worcestershire
Gloucestershire		Herefordshire

Staffordshire

Aldridge	Pictured in 1955. Includes a colour view of the station.
Brownhills	Pictured in 1955.
Stone	Pictured in 1958.
Tamworth	Pictured in 1949 and 1962.
Wolverhampton (High Level)	Pictured in 1952, 1960 and 1961.

Warwickshire

Berkswell and Balsall Common	Pictured in 1961. Includes signal box and level crossing.
Hampton-in-Arden	Pictured in 1955 and 1961. Includes signal box and sidings.
Stratford-upon-Avon (Old Town)	Pictured in 1951, 1956, 1959 and 1962. Includes three colour views.

Worcestershire

Alvechurch	Pictured in 1954. Includes a view of my own from 1991.
Barnt Green	Pictured in 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955 and 1961.
Bengeworth	Pictured in 1952.
Blackwell	Pictured in 1953, 1954 and 1955. Includes a colour view of the station.
Bromsgrove	Pictured in 1954.
Droitwich Road (Goods)	Pictured in 1955.
Dunhampstead (Goods)	Pictured in 1955. Includes Oddingley Crossing.
Evesham (Midland)	Pictured in 1962, a few months before it was closed.
Redditch	Pictured in 1951 and 1955.
Stoke Works	Pictured in 1960.
Studley and Astwood Bank	Pictured in 1952.
Worcester (Shrub Hill)	Pictured in 1965.

Gloucestershire

Ashchurch	Pictured in 1951, 1952 and 1957.
Cheltenham Spa (Lansdown)	See Dad's Day Out 29/7/54.
Coaley	See Dad's Day Out 29/7/54.
Dursley	See Dad's Day Out 29/7/54.
Gloucester (Eastgate)	See Dad's Day Out 29/7/54.
Stonehouse	See Dad's Day Out 29/7/54.

Herefordshire

Hereford

Pictured in 1963, 1964 and 1965.