The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1875.

THE PROPOSED RAILWAY BETWEEN
STOURBRID GE AND KINGS WINFORD.

It will be seen from anadvertisement in another
column that notice isbeing given of an application
to Parliament for powers to construct a new rail-
way, to be called the Stourbridge Western Rail-
way. The want of a railway to the west of this
town has long been seriously felt, and it will be
recollected that attempts have been made at vari-
ous times to supply the deficiency; but, hitherto,
they have proved futile. Taught by the experience
thus gained, the present projectors have avoided
the mistakes of their predecessors, and it is:confi-
dently anticipated that there will be little or no
opposition to the scheme from the llandowners
through whose property the line will have to pass.
One of its special features of it is that it will be a
feeder to the Great Western line, instead of to a
certain extent a rival to it, as was the case with
the bill of 1874 for making the West Stafford-
shire Railway.
Another feature of the present line is thatit will
interfere very little with buildings of any kind,
and we are informed that it has been so mapped
out that only three houses will be demolished in
Stourbridge to make Way for it. Notwithstanding
this, after curving from the present station it
will run a pretty straight course through the
town. It will cross Red Hill, just to the south of
Glover's School, cross the Hatrley Road, the Heath
Road, and then pass round by the end of Bowling
Green Lane, to the Enville turnpike road at Beauty
Bank. There will be a junction near the Red
Lion, and one arm of the line will be continued
through Mr. Fosters works, then pass near the
spade works of Wollaston, the Platts glass and
other works, and on to Wordsley, Bromley, and
Kingswinford, terminating on the north side of
the church, where it will come into connection
with the private railways on the Earl of Dudley's
estate. The other branch from the junction re-
ferred to will pass through Whittington, close to
Kiver, and thence through Cornsall, terminating
on the north side of the Cookley ironworks. Short
branches are proposed to be made from Kinver to
the Hyde ironworks, and from the junction to the
goods station of the Great Western Railway, at the
lower end of Stourbridge.
The engineers have carried out the line with the
view of avoiding heavy works, and the cost per
mile will, we are informed, he nearly one-seventh
less than it was estimated the West Staffordshire
Railway would have cost.
The manifold advantages of such a line to
Stourbridge and the district through which it
passes' must be manifest to all; not the least of
these being that it will connect the great brick-
making district of Kingswinford with Stourbridge,
and afford an easy access from the inhabitants of
the former to the market of the latter. The total

length of the line, including branches, is twelve
miles. We heartily wish the scheme every suc-
cess, and trust that as its claims become mere fully
known it will meet with that support from the in-
habitants of Stourbridge and district which it
deserves.