The Aldridge to Brownhills Branch was a railway line opened by the Midland Railway in 1876 and completed in 1880, linking Aldridge with Brownhills Watling Street and the Cannock coal fields in Staffordshire as part of the Midland Railway branches around Walsall.[1][2] The line was also linked to the South Staffordshire Line by a branch between Walsall Wood and Pelsall,[3] Brownhills was also served by a station on the South Staffordshire line.