Dunstall Park railway station

Dunstall Park
Down freight passing Dunstall Park station in 1958
Location
Place	Wolverhampton
Area	Wolverhampton
Coordinates	52°36′00″N 2°07′42″W / 52.5999°N 2.1282°W / 52.5999; -2.1282Coordinates: 52°36′00″N 2°07′42″W / 52.5999°N 2.1282°W / 52.5999; -2.1282
Grid reference	SJ914002
Operations
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
History
1 December 1896	Opened[1]
4 March 1968	Closed[1]
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Dunstall Park railway station was a station north of Wolverhampton Low Level railway station on the Great Western Railway's London Paddington to Birkenhead via Birmingham Snow Hill line. The station opened on 1 December 1896.^[2] Stafford Road engine shed and works and Oxley shed were nearby.^[2] It saw high traffic due to the nearby Wolverhampton Racecourse but closed in 1968 when services between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury were switched to Wolverhampton High Level.

It was the first stop north from the Low Level station, and was served by local trains towards Shrewsbury, as well as those on the Wombourne Branch Line to Stourbridge.

The station site has since been demolished although freight and passenger trains still pass through the site. There is a bricked up pedestrian entrance and ramp to the former station.

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  Up goods including a dead engine in 1962
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  Down goods train passing under the LMR viaduct in 1962

References

• Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Dunstall Park railway station
• Whittaker, Nicholas (1995). "Chapter 2". Platform Souls. London: Gollancz.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2009). Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury. Middleton Press. figs. 21-25. ISBN 9781906008444. OCLC 286385795.