 In 1860 the Stourbridge Railway was authorised to build a railway line between Stourbridge and Cradley Heath.The following year the Stourbridge Extension Railway Act authorised an extension of that to join the LNWR main line at Galton Junction, and in 1862 a further extension was approved to reach the Great Western Railway line at Handsworth Junction.The line was opened to Cradley Heath with an intermediate station at Lye, on 1 April 1863.