Somerset Road railway station

Former railway station in England

Somerset Road
General information
Location	Edgbaston, Birmingham England
Coordinates	52°27′28″N 1°55′42″W / 52.4577°N 1.9283°W / 52.4577; -1.9283
Grid reference	SP049844
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1876	Opened
1930	Closed

Somerset Road railway station was a railway station in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, on the Midland Railway's Birmingham West Suburban Railway. The station had two platforms and was located in a cutting.

History

It was opened in 1876.

On 14 May 1897, John Thomas Johnson ran down the incline to the platform, but was unable to stop on reaching the platform and fell in front of the advancing train. Part of his left foot was cut off and his head was injured. He survived the accident.

On 16 February 1901, George Grainger attempted to alight from a train before it had pulled up at Somerset Road station and fell between the footboard and the platform. He was crushed to death.

It closed in 1930 due to lack of patronage.

Remains

There are virtually no remains of the station, the only one being a bricked up entrance on the Somerset Road bridge over the present Cross-City Line, between the University railway station and Five Ways railway station.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Church Road Line open, station closed		Midland Railway Birmingham West Suburban Railway		Selly Oak Line and station open

References

^ "Somerset Road Station". Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
"Singular Accident at a Railway Station". Dundee Courier. England. 17 May 1897. Retrieved 25 March 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
"Fatal Accident at Somerset Road". Birmingham Mail. England. 17 February 1901. Retrieved 25 March 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.

External links

Warwickshire Railways entry

Railway stations in the West Midlands county

Open stations

Birmingham	Acocks Green Adderley Park Aston Blake Street Bordesley Bournville Butlers Lane Chester Road Duddeston Erdington Five Ways Four Oaks Gravelly Hill Hall Green Hamstead Jewellery Quarter Kings Norton Lea Hall Longbridge Moor Street New Street Northfield Perry Barr Selly Oak Small Heath Snow Hill Spring Road Stechford Sutton Coldfield Tyseley University Witton Wylde Green Yardley Wood
Coventry	Canley Coventry Coventry Arena Tile Hill
Dudley	Coseley Lye Stourbridge Junction Stourbridge Town
Sandwell	Bescot Stadium Cradley Heath Dudley Port Langley Green Old Hill Rowley Regis Sandwell & Dudley Smethwick Galton Bridge Smethwick Rolfe Street Tame Bridge Parkway The Hawthorns Tipton
Solihull	Berkswell Birmingham International Dorridge Earlswood Hampton-in-Arden Marston Green Olton Shirley Solihull Whitlocks End Widney Manor
Walsall	Bloxwich Bloxwich North Walsall
Wolverhampton	Wolverhampton
Outside West Midlands county, but within the Transport for West Midlands area	Wythall

Disused

Birmingham	Bromford Bridge Camp Hill Castle Bromwich Central Goods Church Road Curzon Street Granville Street Hagley Road Handsworth & Smethwick Handsworth Wood Harborne Hazelwell Hockley Icknield Port Road Kings Heath Lawley Street Lifford Longbridge (1915–1964) Monument Lane Moseley Penns Rotton Park Road Rubery Saltley Soho & Winson Green Soho Road Somerset Road Sutton Park Sutton Coldfield Town Winson Green
Coventry	Coundon Road Daimler Halt Foleshill Longford & Exhall
Dudley	Baptist End Blowers Green Brettell Lane Brierley Hill Brockmoor Halt Bromley Halt Darby End Dudley Gornal Halt Halesowen Harts Hill Old Hill High Street Pensnett Halt Round Oak Windmill End
Sandwell	Albion Great Bridge North Great Bridge South Newton Road Oldbury Princes End & Coseley Rood End Smethwick West Soho Spon Lane Swan Village Tipton Five Ways Wednesbury Central Wednesbury Town West Bromwich
Walsall	Aldridge Bentley Brownhills Brownhills Watling Street Darlaston Darlaston James Bridge North Walsall Pelsall Pleck Rushall Short Heath Streetly Walsall Wood Willenhall Bilston Street Willenhall Stafford Street Wood Green
Wolverhampton	Bilston Central Bilston West Bradley and Moxley Bushbury Compton Halt Daisy Bank Dunstall Park Ettingshall Road Heath Town Monmore Green Portobello Priestfield Stafford Road Tettenhall Wednesfield Heath for Wolverhampton Wednesfield Wolverhampton Low Level Wolverhampton Temporary

Heritage
Tyseley, Warwick Road

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