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Oldbury is a market town in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell, in the county of the West Midlands, England.It is the administrative centre of the borough. At the 2011 census, the town had a population of 13,606, [2] while the 2017 population of the wider built-up area was estimated at 25,488. [3]
Glaze Viaduct: near Ivybridge, Devon: Glenfinnan Viaduct: Lochaber, Scotland: on the West Highland Line: Glenury Viaduct: Stonehaven, Scotland 1849 B Carries the Dundee–Aberdeen line: Goathland Viaduct (a.k.a. Thomason Foss Viaduct) between Goathland and Grosmont, North Yorkshire: carries the heritage North Yorkshire Moors Railway across the ...
The station at Oldbury had a very short lifespan, closing in 1916 as a result of the first world war and never reopened, although the line remained in use for goods traffic to the local factories until 1960s when the section from Albright and Wilson Oldbury Division to the site of Oldbury was severed by the building of the M5 Motorway. This ...
longest single-span bridge in the UK, spanning the Humber Estuary: Huntington Warren Clapper Bridge: Devon: Dartmoor: unknown: Spans the River Avon: Hylton Viaduct: Tyne and Wear: Sunderland: 1974: steel box girder bridge over the River Wear: Infinity Bridge: County Durham: Stockton-on-Tees: 2008: North Shore Development, carrying pedestrians ...
Stretton Aqueduct carrying the Shropshire Union Canal over the A5. The inscription in the centre panel reads: "Birmingham and Liverpool Canal Thos. Telford F.R.S.I.& E. Engineer 1832" Three Bridges, London: Grand Junction Canal: Isambard Kingdom Brunel
[10] [11] Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, which was formed in 1974, was initially based at West Bromwich Town Hall [12] but moved to modern facilities at the new Sandwell Council House on the east side of Freeth Street, Oldbury in 1989. [13] The municipal buildings in Oldbury went on to serve as the local offices of Citizens Advice. [14]
The Spon Lane Locks Branch is an 800-yard section of the BCN Main Line canal in Oldbury, England, which forms a connecting canal "sliproad" where the Old BCN Main Line crosses the New BCN Main Line at the Stewart Aqueduct. It runs westwards from Spon Lane Junction (underneath the M5 motorway) via the three Spon Lane Locks to Bromford Junction.
English: Oldbury, old town hall Previous headquarters of Oldbury Borough Council, now occupied by various voluntary organisations; at the junction of Freeth and Halesowen Streets. Foundation stone dated 1890.