Hamstead railway station

It is located at the junction of Rocky Lane and Old Walsall Road, Hamstead, at Birmingham's border with the borough of Sandwell.

Sidings, controlled by the signalbox, served the adjacent Hamstead Colliery, west of the station and north of the line.

The wooden ticket office is located on the Birmingham New Street-bound platform and is staffed part-time seven days per week.

[6] The typical Monday-Saturday daytime service sees two trains per hour in each direction between Walsall and Birmingham New Street (and through towards Wolverhampton).

A replacement bus service operates on these days to Hamstead from New Street, calling Duddeston, Aston and Witton beforehand.

The signal box and old station building, just before the latter's 1899 closure, with the new down platform seen under the original arched road bridge (replaced in the mid-1960s, when the line was electrified).
An unidentified ex-LNWR 0-8-0 'G1' passes through Great Barr station, towards Perry Barr, with a coal train, circa 1923.
"Great Barr" station bench, photographed at Hamstead in late 1970s/early 1980s
The flooded station, looking towards Birmingham, on 16 February 2020