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31st August 1962

Reflection at Windmill End. At work on an early evening service from Old Hill to Dudley was this original liveried Gloucester class 122 single car unit on 31st August 1962. The view was taken from Springfield Road on the ouskirts of Netherton and it also shows a sunken narrow boat on the Dudley canal. At the time of the photograph the station was only 5 years old, a 'modern' replacement for the previous generations of wooden shelter, given the lonely location and proximity to the canal towpath the station proved irresistible to vandals. The stations on this line all closed 15th June 1964. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.

circa 1962

This is Windmill End Halt on what was known as "The Bumble Hole** Line" actually part of the Old Hill to Dudley branch, the GRCW single car is working from Dudley towards Old Hill. The almost rusted away corrugated iron buildings were new as part of the 1957 rebuild, the shelter was replaced with a concrete bus shelter in the early 1960's and the line closed shortly afterwards 15/06/1964. The chimneys to the right were those of the Royal Doulton pipe works (recently demolished and now being built on), in the foreground is a hint of canal, this is the Dudley number 2 canal towards Halesowen, it originally continued to Selly Oak in Birmingham. The abutment in the picture is the demolished railway bridge over this canal, within a 100 yards the railway crossed the Netherton arm of the Dudley canal on a second bridge near the mouth of Netherton Tunnel. Image taken by Peter Shoesmith. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.

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