A £30 million project to bring rail services to the town for the first time since 1965 can now be finalised with a design and development phase.
The project, led by Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) and the West Midlands Rail Executive (WMRE), will see plans drawn up for a station on the outskirts of Aldridge centre with road access from Westfield Drive.
West Midlands Mayor Andy Street said: “With diggers already in the ground working on three new stations on the Camp Hill line alongside Darlaston and Willenhall stations on the Walsall to Wolverhampton line, Aldridge will be a very welcome sixth addition to our region.
This is another step forward as we rebuild and reopen many of the railway stations closed by the Beeching cuts of the past – all part of our plans to better connect communities and give local people a genuine alternative to the car.
We remain steadfast in our commitment to public transport and so we will continue to seek to revive even more stations and passenger services in the months and years ahead. “
When built, it’s proposed that the station will run a diesel shuttle service every half an hour into Walsall, which will take six minutes.