Lye Station

1863 - Present

Sitting on the latter-day GWR's Stourbridge Extension, Lye Station opened in 1863 under the short-lived, and short-routed, Stourbridge Railway and has the odd distinction of being the station with the shortest name in Britain! Along with a handful of others on my travels (Dudley Port springs to mind), Lye is a disappointment with its green, shabby Portakabin station building (as seen above in July 2003) and general air of disrepair about the site. With the possible exception of the footbridge, there is nothing to recommend a visit to this station.

Above-left is the view across the tracks showing the delapidated 'bus shelter' on the Birmingham platform. Above-right we see the view looking towards Stourbridge through the Dudley Road overbridge.

Just under the footbridge and to the right of the shot used to be goods sidings but these have been replaced by the seemingly ever-present factory units today.