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Wolverhampton station
Wolverhampton station is a step-free access regional interchange railway station situated in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England on the Birmingham Loop of the West Coast Main Line. The station is the fourth-busiest in the West Midlands region; it is served by Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, Transport for Wales and West Midlands Trains services, and was historically known as Wolverhampton High Level. There is a West Midlands Metro tram stop located outside the station, an elevated walkway towards Wolverhampton Bus Station and a 24/7 multi-storey car park adjacent to the station.
The first station named Wolverhampton opened on the edge of the town centre in 1837 on the Grand Junction Railway. This station was renamed Wednesfield Heath in 1855, shortly after the present station was opened, and subsequently closed in 1873.
On 12 November 1849, the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway opened a temporary terminus to its line at a location very close to the present station.
The present station site was opened on 1 July 1852 by the Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Stour Valley Railway, a subsidiary of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR); it was named Wolverhampton Queen Street. The only visible remnant of the original station is the Queen's Building, the gateway to Railway Drive, which was the approach road to the station. The building was originally the carriage entrance to the station and was completed three years before the main station building. Today, it forms part of Wolverhampton bus station.
Two years later, on 1 July 1854, the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OWWR) opened a second station, located behind the older station on lower ground, which became known as the Wolverhampton Low Level station from April 1856, the other becoming known as Wolverhampton High Level from 1 June 1885.
From 1923, the LNWR was amalgamated into the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and in 1948 it became part of the London Midland Region of British Railways.
Services over the former Grand Junction Railway line to Walsall (and thence to Lichfield City and Burton-on-Trent) ended in January 1965, this route being the only one from here to fall victim to the Beeching Axe.
The since-replaced Wolverhampton station dated from 1964 when the High Level station was completely rebuilt by the architect Ray Moorcroft as part of a modernisation programme that saw the West Coast Main Line electrified. It consisted of three through platforms (the present platforms 1, 2 and 3). As part of this scheme, most services on the OW&WR route from Shrewsbury were diverted here from Low Level (though a few peak-hour trains continued to serve the latter until March 1968); these then continued to Birmingham New Street via the Stour Valley line rather than via the ex-GWR line to Birmingham Snow Hill as before. In the 1980s, a parcels siding was converted into a south-facing bay platform (the present platform 5), and a new north-facing bay was constructed (the present platform 6).
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Wolverhampton station
Wolverhampton station is a step-free access regional interchange railway station situated in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England on the Birmingham Loop of the West Coast Main Line. The station is the fourth-busiest in the West Midlands region; it is served by Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, Transport for Wales and West Midlands Trains services, and was historically known as Wolverhampton High Level. There is a West Midlands Metro tram stop located outside the station, an elevated walkway towards Wolverhampton Bus Station and a 24/7 multi-storey car park adjacent to the station.
The first station named Wolverhampton opened on the edge of the town centre in 1837 on the Grand Junction Railway. This station was renamed Wednesfield Heath in 1855, shortly after the present station was opened, and subsequently closed in 1873.
On 12 November 1849, the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway opened a temporary terminus to its line at a location very close to the present station.
The present station site was opened on 1 July 1852 by the Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Stour Valley Railway, a subsidiary of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR); it was named Wolverhampton Queen Street. The only visible remnant of the original station is the Queen's Building, the gateway to Railway Drive, which was the approach road to the station. The building was originally the carriage entrance to the station and was completed three years before the main station building. Today, it forms part of Wolverhampton bus station.
Two years later, on 1 July 1854, the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OWWR) opened a second station, located behind the older station on lower ground, which became known as the Wolverhampton Low Level station from April 1856, the other becoming known as Wolverhampton High Level from 1 June 1885.
From 1923, the LNWR was amalgamated into the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and in 1948 it became part of the London Midland Region of British Railways.
Services over the former Grand Junction Railway line to Walsall (and thence to Lichfield City and Burton-on-Trent) ended in January 1965, this route being the only one from here to fall victim to the Beeching Axe.
The since-replaced Wolverhampton station dated from 1964 when the High Level station was completely rebuilt by the architect Ray Moorcroft as part of a modernisation programme that saw the West Coast Main Line electrified. It consisted of three through platforms (the present platforms 1, 2 and 3). As part of this scheme, most services on the OW&WR route from Shrewsbury were diverted here from Low Level (though a few peak-hour trains continued to serve the latter until March 1968); these then continued to Birmingham New Street via the Stour Valley line rather than via the ex-GWR line to Birmingham Snow Hill as before. In the 1980s, a parcels siding was converted into a south-facing bay platform (the present platform 5), and a new north-facing bay was constructed (the present platform 6).
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