Full journey along the Stourbridge Town branch line from Junction to Town along the full length of the shortest branch line in Europe. This journey was filmed on the 1015 service on Sunday 9th January 2022 on board a WMR class 139 Parry People Mover Railcar. There no intermediate stations on this line and the whole journey takes only 3 minutes.
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Stourbridge Junction (SBJ) (depart): 00:33
Stourbridge Town (SBT): 0:03:33
Note that this is the shortest branch rail line in Britain and also the shortest line in Europe being only around 0.8 miles or 1.3 KM long.
Services on this route are operated entirely self contained from the national rail network, although a rail connection at Stourbridge Junction exists. Services on this route operate every 10 minutes in each direction (Monday to Saturday) and every 15 minutes in each direction (Sunday). Stourbridge Town receives no other rail services but Stourbridge Junction has onward connections (Snow Hill Line) operated frequently by West Midlands Railway towards Birmingham Snow Hill, Dorridge, Whitlocks End, Stratford-upon-Avon, Kidderminster and Worcester Foregate Street/Shrub Hill as well as limited Chiltern Railways services towards Leamington Spa, Banbury, Bicester North, High Wycombe and London Marylebone along the Chiltern Main Line.
The rolling stock used on this route was purpose built for this line with no other routes using the branch lines Railcars. There are 2 class 139 Parry People Mover Railcars used on the line with 1 operating all services each day. This journey was filmed on 139 001 with 139 002 being the other unit. Connection services at Stourbridge Junction are operated by class 172 Turbostar (WMR) and class 168 Clubman/class 68 locomotive hauled trains (Chiltern).
This route is single track throughout with no passing loops provided. This route is unelectrified and each of Town and Junction has 1 platform serving the branch line with Junction having 2 additional platforms for Snow Hill line services.
Journey sections:
Stourbridge Junction to Stourbridge Town 00:00
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