Despite being awarded Grade 11 listed status in 2000, the footbridge is a standard Great Western Railway product, to be seen across that railway. The decorative ironwork includes its date of construction and of the rebuilding of the station, 1884, as well as interwoven letters ‘GWR’. The Hornby plastic model used the Hagley footbridge as its inspiration.
The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway opened its line from Droitwich to Stourbridge on 1st May 1852, but a station at Hagley did not appear in the timetable until ten years later. As can be seen by the unusually wide spacing between the tracks, the formation was made sufficiently wide to accommodate Brunel’s broad gauge track. Some sources claim that a single broad gauge train travelled the mixed gauge track through Hagley as far as Wolverhampton.