Dunstall Park railway station was a station north of

Wolverhampton Low Level railway station Wolverhampton Low Level was a railway station on Sun Street, in Springfield, Wolverhampton, England. It was built by the Great Western Railway (GWR), on their route from London Paddington to Birkenhead, via Birmingham Snow Hill. It was the ...

on the

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via Birmingham Snow Hill line. The station opened on 1 December 1896. Stafford Road engine shed and works and Oxley shed were nearby. It saw high traffic due to the nearby

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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

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, as well as those on the Wombourne Branch Line to

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. 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. Immediately south of the station site is the short connecting line to the Stafford-Wolverhampton line. This freight-only line was mostly used by coal trains to

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in recent years. File:Dunstall Park station, with Up goods including a dead engine geograph-2572669-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg, Up goods including a dead engine in 1962 File:Dunstall Park station geograph-2575087-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg, Down goods train passing under the LMR viaduct in 1962

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Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Dunstall Park railway station
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