a – z travel guide - Stourbridge Line User Group

A – Z TRAVEL GUIDE THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS AS ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE. S.L.U.G. IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ERRORS ARISING FROM REVISIONS TO BUS/ TRAIN SERVICES OR VENUE OPENING TIMES. Attraction A Airport, Birmingham Arboretum, Walsall Arley Aston Hall B Bewdley Suggested transport Information Train to Birmingham Moor Street Station then bus 900 Bus 311 from Stourbridge Town, 404/404a from Rowley Regis/ Cradley Heath. Good distance from bus station. See “Bridgnorth” If travelling light, then walk from Birmingham Moor Street to Birmingham New Street and catch any Coventry or London Euston train. 01922 653148 www.walsall.gov.uk www.virtual­shropshire.co.uk/about/Arley_ Arboretum.shtml Walk from Tel. 0121 3270062 Birmingham www.birmingham.uk.com/astonhall.htm Snow Hill Station to Snow Hill Queensway then use bus no.7 Bus service 2 from Kidderminster or Steam trains from Kidderminster Town (Severn Valley) station 01299 404740 www.wft.co.uk
Bilston and Battersea Enamels Plc. Train from 01902 353485 Birmingham www.halcyondays.co.uk Snow Hill, Jewellery Quarter or The Hawthorns then Metro to Bilston Bilston Craft Gallery and Museum Train from Birmingham Snow Hill, Jewellery Quarter or The Hawthorns then Metro to Bilston Walk from Birmingham Snow Hill station to Livery Street Walk from Snow Hill/ Moor street to Chamberlain Square See” Think Tank” See “Cannon Hill Park” 311 from Stourbridge Town Fifteen to twenty minute walk from Stourbridge Town As “Boat Trips ­ Stourbridge” 10, 21, 22, 23, 29, 103 from Birmingham Steam Trains from Kidderminster Town (Severn Valley) station As above Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Birmingham Museum And Art Gallery Birmingham Science Museum Birmingham Nature Centre Black Country Living Museum Boat trips ­ Stourbridge Bonded Warehouse, Stourbridge Botanical Gardens Bridgnorth Bridgnorth Cliff Railway 01902 552507 www.wolverhampton.gov.uk 0121 506 1300 www.ramblers.org.uk/info/paths/birminghamand blackcountrywaterways.html Tel.0121 2352384 www.bmag.org.uk Tel 0121 202 2222 www.thinktank.ac/ Tel. 0121 4727775 www.birmingham.gov.uk/parks Tel. 0121 5579643 www.bclm.co.uk Tel 01384 375912 www.stourbridge.com/htm/canaltrp.htm www.discoverdudley.org.uk/Dudley_canals.htm Tel. 0121 4541860 www.bbgardens.org www.bridgnorthshropshire.com Tel 01746 762052 or 01746 762124 www.bridgnorthcliffrailway.co.uk
Brindley Place Bristol Broadfield House Glass Museum Broad street Buckpool and Fens Pools Bull Ring Birmingham C Cadbury World Cannon Hill Park Chasewater Light Railway Cleobury Mortimer Train to Birmingham Snow Hill or bus no.9 from Lye, 139 from Cradley Heath Through trains from Worcester or train to Birmingham Moor Street, then walk to New Street for Cross Country service 256, 257 from Stourbridge Town As”Brindley Place” Bus service 246 or 311 from Stourbridge Town to Harts Hill Train to Birmingham Moor Street www.birminghamuk.com/brindley.htm Train to Birmingham then bus no. 84 From Birmingham Moor Street, walk to Pershore Street for buses 45, 47 Train to Birmingham Moor Street then bus 156 from Moor Street Queensway Catch no. 84 from Navigation Street www.cadburyworld.co.uk/ Train to Kidderminster, then bus 292 Bus stop for 292 is opposite Safeways, ten minute walk from Station down Comberton Hill. Weekday frequency, hourly at best. Sunday service poor­not recommended.
www.visitbristol.co.uk/ Tel. 01384 812745 www.dudley.gov.uk www.discoverdudley.org.uk/parks_buckpool.htm www.bullring.co.uk www.birminghamuk.com/cannonhill.htm Operates mainly Sundays 01543 452 623 www.ChasewaterRailway.co.uk Clee Hills Clent Hills See ”Ludlow” Train to Hagley then bus 318 Cotswolds sightseeing tour Train to Stratford upon Avon then walk to Tourist Office (the) Worcester Commandery,Worcester Foregate Street Station and short walk. County Museum, Occasional Hartlebury direct trains to Hartlebury then walk. Sundays take train to Kidderminster then bus 300 D Dudley Museum and Art Gallery Dudley Zoo E Earlswood Lakes Elgar’s birthpace www.city­sightseeing.com Tel 01905 361 821 www.worcestercitymuseums.org.uk www.worcestershire.gov.uk/home/cs­ museum.htm 246, 311 from Stourbridge Town, 243 from Cradley Heath 311 from Stourbridge Town Tel. 01384 815575 www.dudley.gov.uk/tourism/dudleymuseum/index. Train to The Lakes Train to Worcester Foregate Street Then bus 758 or 759* Tel 01564 702567 www.solihullonline.com/earlswoodlakes.htm * Bus service 759 operates Summer Season only on Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays.. F Fens Pools Nature Reserve See”Buckpool and Fens Pools” G Great Malvern Train and bus option only. NOT via Hereford. 318 runs Monday to Saturday only. Frequency less than hourly See”Malvern Hills”
Tel 01384 215314 www.dudleyzoo.org.uk/ H Hagley Hall Harvington Hall Hatton Country World Hall Green Greyhound Stadium Highley Himley Hall and Park I Imax Theatre International Convention Centre (ICC) J Jerome K. Jerome Museum, Walsall Jewellery Quarter Discovery Centre Train to Hagley Open certain days only. Village then 318 less than hourly – check times bus 318 to Upper Hagley Tel 01562 882408 or 01562 882632 www.hagleyhall.info/ Train to Kidderminster then bus X33 Train to Birmingham Moor Street then train to Hatton Train to Hall Green See”Bridgnorth” Bus service 256 from Stourbridge Town www.harvingtonhall.com Follow the canal towpath after leaving Hatton Station. www.hattonworld.com/ www.hallgreenstadium.co.uk Countryside Explorer bus operates weekends / Bank Holiday Mondays ( tel. 01299 270207) 01902 326665 (Hall) 01902 324093 (Park) www.himleyhall.org/ Walk from Birmingham Moor Street. to Millennium Point Train to Birmingham Snow Hill Tel 0121 202 2222 www.imax.ac/ Bus 311 from Stourbridge Town, bus 404 / 404A from Rowley Regis/ Cradley Heath Train to Jewellery Quarter Buses terminate at Bradford Place. Short walk to Bradford Street. Tel 01922 653116 www.jeromekjerome.com/museum.htm www.necgroup.co.uk www.the­quarter.com/
K Kinver Edge L Leamington Spa Leather Museum, Walsall London Marylebone London Paddington Ludlow Buses 227, 228 Tel 01384 872553 or 01384 872418 from www.kinveronline.co.uk/ Stourbridge Town to Kinver Some through services (Central Trains) or change at Birmingham Moor Street for Chiltern Railways trains Stations and buses as per Arboretum, Walsall www.royal­leamington­spa.co.uk/ Some through services at peaks, otherwise change at Birmingham Snow Hill / Moor Street Train from Worcester Shrub Hill or Foregate Street Train to Hereford then train to Ludlow or train to Kidderminster and bus 292 from Safeways www.londoncitytourist.com Good walk from Bradford place to Littleton Street West 01922 721153 www.walsall.gov.uk/leathermuseum www.londoncitytourist.com Safeways bus stop 5­10 minutes walk down Comberton Hill. Last bus from Ludlow is 1758 Monday – Thursday. Some two hourly gaps between services. Plan you return journey.
M Malvern and Malvern Hills Marylebone Through train to Great Malvern Station(or change at Worcester Foregate Street) then walk through town to hills See ”London Marylebone” Merry Hill Shopping Centre Train to Cradley Heath then bus 139 N National Indoor Arena Train to (NIA) Birmingham Snow Hill National Sea Life Centre, Train to Birmingham Birmingham Snow Hill or bus service 9 from Lye, 139 from Cradley Heath to Brindley Place O P Public Houses (Real Ale) www.malvernhills.gov.uk/ Malvern Hopper bus service runs Weekends and Bank Holiday Mondays from June to October. Bus departs Great Malvern station and operates as a circular. Frequency only EVERY TWO HOURS but bus links the station to the Three Counties Show grounds. For details­ www. malvernhillsaonb.org.uk/thehillshopperservice www.merryhill.co.uk/ www.necgroup.co.uk Tel 0121 633 4700 www.sealifeeurope.com/uk/birmingham/home.htm Metro from Birmingham Snow Hill, Jewellery Quarter or The Hawthorns See brochure produced by Centro and Travel Midland Metro www.travelwm.co.uk/events/pubguide.asp Bus service 256, 257, 267 from Stourbridge Town 01384 812750 www.redhousecone.co.uk Q R Red House Glass Cone, Wordsley S
Sandwell Valley Country Park Sarehole Mill Sea Life Centre Severn Valley Railway Metro from Birmingham Snow Hill, Jewellery Quarter or The Hawthorns. Fair walk. Walk from Hall Green Station to Cole Bank Road See ”NATIONAL Sea Life Centre” Train to Kidderminster, Walk across to Kidderminster Town Station Shakespeare Express Steam Trains Train to Birmingham Snow Hill Stourport on Severn Train to Kidderminster then bus 16A from forecourt As “Stourport on Severn” Stourport Boat trips T Think Tank ( Birmingham Science Museum) Tyseley U V
Walk from Birmingham Moor Street to Millennium Point See “Birmingham Railway Museum” and “Shakespeare Express” 0121 553 0220 www.sandwellmbc.broadnet.co.uk 0121 777 6612 www.bmag.org.uk 01299 403816 www.svr.co.uk Summer Season Only 0121 708 4960 www.shakespeareexpress.com www.vintagetrains.co.uk/sv.htm www.stourporttown.co.uk/info.html PlusBus tickets not valid on Whittles Buses. If using this facility walk to bus station, 20 mins away and catch Firstbus service no.3 Boat trips to Worcester every Wednesday (from last Wednesday in July to first Wednesday in August) www.riverboathire.co.uk/ 0121 202 2222 www.thinktank.ac Vintage Trains See “Shakespeare Express” W
Walsall Art Gallery Bus 311 from Stourbridge Town, 404/ 404a from Rowley Regis/ Cradley Heath Walsall Museum of Leather Bus service 311 from Stourbridge Town to Walsall. Lengthy walk to Littleton Street West Witley Court See “Elgar’s Birthplace” 01922 654400 www.artatwalsall.org.uk 01922 721153 www.windowsonwalsall.gov.uk http//accessibility.english­ heritage.org.uk/default.asp? WCI=Node&WCE=7895 01902 552055 www.artgalll.scit.wlv.ac.uk Wolverhampton Art Gallery Train to Smethwick Galton Bridge then train to Wolverhampton Worcester Cathedral Train to www.cafe­worcester.org.uk/cathedral/ Worcester Foregate Street Organisations included in this document and members of S.L.U.G. may submit photographs and further detailed information which we will use at our discretion. Please contact the Secretary. Y Z If you have any suggestions for places we could include in this guide, If you know of another route, If you would like permission to copy this guide, Please contact the Secretary at S.L.U.G. 12 Church Street, Stourbridge, DY8 1LY