Dunstall Park railway station

Former railway station in England

52°36′00″N 2°07′42″W / 52.5999°N 2.1282°W / 52.5999; -2.1282Grid referenceSJ914002Platforms2Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyGreat Western RailwayPre-groupingGreat Western RailwayPost-groupingGreat Western RailwayKey dates1 December 1896Opened^[1]1 January 1917closed3 March 1919opened4 March 1968Closed^[1]

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.

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 Ironbridge Power Station in recent years.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Wolverhampton Low Level		Great Western Railway "The Wombourne Branch" (1925-1932)		Tettenhall
Wolverhampton Low Level		Great Western Railway Wolverhampton-Shrewsbury (1854-1968)		Birches and Bilbrook

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

References

^ ^a ^b "Station Name: Dunstall Park". Disused Stations. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
^ ^a ^b Hendry, R. Preston; Hendry, R. Powell (1992). Paddington to the Mersey. Oxford Publishing Company. p. 89. ISBN 9780860934424. OCLC 877729237.

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

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Coventry	Canley Coventry Coventry Arena Tile Hill
Dudley	Coseley Lye Stourbridge Junction Stourbridge Town
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Wolverhampton	Wolverhampton
Outside West Midlands county, but within the Transport for West Midlands area	Wythall

Disused

Birmingham	Bromford Bridge Camp Hill Castle Bromwich Central Goods Church Road Curzon Street Granville Street Hagley Road Handsworth & Smethwick Handsworth Wood Harborne Hazelwell Hockley Icknield Port Road Kings Heath Lawley Street Lifford Longbridge (1915–1964) Monument Lane Moseley Penns Rotton Park Road Rubery Saltley Soho & Winson Green Soho Road Somerset Road Sutton Park Sutton Coldfield Town Winson Green
Coventry	Coundon Road Daimler Halt Foleshill Longford & Exhall
Dudley	Baptist End Blowers Green Brettell Lane Brierley Hill Brockmoor Halt Bromley Halt Darby End Dudley Gornal Halt Halesowen Harts Hill Old Hill High Street Pensnett Halt Round Oak Windmill End
Sandwell	Albion Great Bridge North Great Bridge South Newton Road Oldbury Princes End & Coseley Rood End Smethwick West Soho Spon Lane Swan Village Tipton Five Ways Wednesbury Central Wednesbury Town West Bromwich
Walsall	Aldridge Bentley Brownhills Brownhills Watling Street Darlaston Darlaston James Bridge North Walsall Pelsall Pleck Rushall Short Heath Streetly Walsall Wood Willenhall Bilston Street Willenhall Stafford Street Wood Green
Wolverhampton	Bilston Central Bilston West Bradley and Moxley Bushbury Compton Halt Daisy Bank Dunstall Park Ettingshall Road Heath Town Monmore Green Portobello Priestfield Stafford Road Tettenhall Wednesfield Heath for Wolverhampton Wednesfield Wolverhampton Low Level Wolverhampton Temporary