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Despite being disused for more than 50 years, the station building survives, but was bricked up around the year 2000. The forecourt has been fenced off since 2004 due to youths' anti-social behaviour, structural decay and periodical use by homeless people. Bill-posters are stuck to it from time to
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stop which will be opened on the completion of the local tram network's second line. A £1,100,000/15-year-long regeneration project will see the station become part of the local tram network with the line reopening between
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600:. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 24-28.
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462:"Station Name: Blowers Green"
423:Netherton signal box in 2004.
369:Brettell Lane railway station
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667:Bumble Hole Line (1878-1964)
598:Stourbridge to Wolverhampton
398:Historic imagery of the site
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559:"The Great Western Railway"
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275:South Staffordshire Railway
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487:"Blowers Green Station"
1714:Darlaston James Bridge
1402:Longbridge (1915–1964)
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361:Dudley railway station
1899:Tyseley, Warwick Road
1495:Longford & Exhall
1457:Sutton Coldfield Town
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63:General information
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1661:Wednesbury Central
1611:Great Bridge South
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1480:Coundon Road
1462:Winson Green
1208:Widney Manor
1110:Rowley Regis
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1616:Newton Road
1553:Gornal Halt
1513:Baptist End
1452:Sutton Park
1387:Kings Heath
1352:Hagley Road
1337:Church Road
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931:Moor Street
676:Baptist End
108: /
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1947:Categories
1847:Tettenhall
1832:Portobello
1822:Heath Town
1807:Daisy Bank
1764:Wood Green
1699:Brownhills
1563:Harts Hill
1309:Birmingham
986:University
946:Perry Barr
941:Northfield
936:New Street
926:Longbridge
901:Hall Green
861:Bournville
828:Birmingham
760:Harts Hill
743:, finally
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441:References
384:Wednesbury
291:Harts Hill
197:Opened as
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1709:Darlaston
1646:Spon Lane
1578:Round Oak
1558:Halesowen
1543:Darby End
1490:Foleshill
1442:Soho Road
1372:Hazelwell
1322:Camp Hill
1173:Earlswood
1158:Berkswell
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971:Stechford
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189:Key dates
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96:2°05′04″W
1889:Heritage
1797:Bushbury
1744:Streetly
1689:Aldridge
1631:Rood End
1593:Sandwell
1472:Coventry
1367:Harborne
1226:Bloxwich
1198:Solihull
1168:Dorridge
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1105:Old Hill
1077:Sandwell
1024:Coventry
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921:Lea Hall
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496:31 March
471:31 March
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273:and the
219:Renamed
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1734:Rushall
1724:Pelsall
1694:Bentley
1681:Walsall
1621:Oldbury
1432:Saltley
1412:Moseley
1397:Lifford
1377:Hockley
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