Spring Road Station
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Spring Road Station by Stephen McKay as part of the Geograph project.
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Spring Road Station
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 21 Dec 2015
A train heading towards Birmingham pauses at Spring Road. The station was opened in 1908, when the area would have been quite rural, as a halt and did not acquire a permanent ticket office until the 1950s. In recent times it has thrived - passenger usage more than doubling over the last ten years.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.444222
Longitude
-1.836357