According to West Midlands Mayor Andy Street, "it`s full steam ahead to get Aldridge Station on the line".
Andy Street, who heads the West Midlands Combined Authority, has been campaigning to re-open Aldridge`s railway station (pictured in 1955 photo courtesy of DJ Norton, credit Transport for West Midlands) for years alongside local MP Wendy Morton.
"Re-opening old railway statins" said Andy Street "is a key part of my transport plans for the West Midlands, with work already begun on sites in the South of Birmingham like Moseley."
According to Andy Street, Aldridge people looking forward to their new station being built can now take heart from the construction of another station down the line at Willenhall.
"I have also been determined to see passenger services return to the line between Wolverhampton and Walsall" he said "which, of course, passes through Aldridge. We`re making huge progress in this ambition. The site has been bought and now we`re looking at securing car parking for the new station. But the message has to be it`s "full steam ahead" for Aldridge. This is no longer just a proposal. We`re making it happen. If local people want evidence of that they can look just a little further down the line to Willenhall where diggers are now in the ground and work has begun to build the new station".
Transport chiefs aim to open the station at Aldridge which would cater for 500,000 passengers a year with 2 trains running to Walsall and Birmingham New Street. In 2022 £400,000 was secured to purchase a site for the station in Aldridge with Transport for West Midlands agreeing to buy NHS-owned land in Westfield Drive next to Anchor Meadow Health Centre.
