found that the blame lay on the signalman who forgot that there was an engine at the home signal and accepted the passenger train without checking that the line was clear.

[9] On Thursday 2 April 1931 a passenger train from Birmingham collided with three empty stationary coaches at the station.

[10] In 1962, the OWW was closed to passenger traffic north of Stourbridge by the British Transport Commission, although the route remained open for freight until 1993.

Certain Birmingham - Worcester/Hereford trains calling here continued to use the connection onto the Stour Valley line at Galton Junction until the May 2004 timetable change,[13] but there are now no timetabled direct services to New Street and passengers wishing to access main line services there must either change at Galton Bridge or make the transfer between Snow Hill (or Moor St) & New Street on foot.

The station's signalbox closed on 24 August 2012, as part of a wider network modernisation programme to centralise signalling operations.

The town branch is accessed from the 'goods loop' line and a manually operated ground frame located to the north of platforms 1 & 2.

Trains operating from the Junction to Stourbridge Town are currently being run by Class 139 units.

Other operators: The station often sees special charter trains or stock movements to the Severn Valley Railway at Kidderminster, and three CrossCountry services - one early morning and two late evening - are timetabled to run through, but not call at, Stourbridge Junction.

[23] Since 2010, plans have existed to reintroduce services on part of the disused Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OWW) from Stourbridge Junction to Brierley Hill.

Services would be operated by similar PPM stock that is used to Stourbridge Town, or the branch route may be expanded, these plans were later paused in place of the West Midlands Metro extension.

[27][28] Due to funding constraints, it was decided to terminate Line 2 in Brierley Hill, and later Stourbridge, with the first section from Wednesbury to Dudley opening first.

The GWR intended to improve this, but were delayed by the outbreak of World War I until 1926, when they built a new standard pattern single roundhouse with coaling/watering and light maintenance facilities, situated 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of the station, just north of the A458 Birmingham Street.

[29] Today the yard to the north of the station is home to a Light Maintenance Depot used by Chiltern Railways.

The land at the south end of platform 1 has a shed for the two Class 139 units that serve the Stourbridge Town branch.