B.I.P.CHEMICALS LTD, OLDBURY
Grid Reference: SO 998889
This works which dated from World War 1 was on the west side of the Stourbridge to Birmingham line between Rowley Regis & Blackheath and Langley Green Stations.
Internal rail traffic ceased in 1971 and the ine remaining locomotive went to the Severn Valley Railway.
After the plant closed the site was cleared and a housing estate was built in the 2010s.
On a sunny 2nd October 1957, Ken Plant took this photograph (used by courtesy of the Industrial Railway Society) using an exposure of 1/25th. The locomotive is RSH(N) 7213 of 1945. THe
LOCOMOTIVE FLEET:
2 0-4-0ST Hawthorn Leslie 3308 of 1918 (from new to 1946)
- 0-4-0ST Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 7213 of 1945 (from new to scrapped c/1962)
- 0-4-0DM Ruston & Hornsby 319290 of 1953 (sold for preservation 3/1972)