Tettenhall railway station

Tettenhall
Tettenhall station building, now part of the South Staffordshire Railway Walk.
General information
Location	Tettenhall, Wolverhampton England
Coordinates	52.5965°N 2.1621°W / 52.5965; -2.1621
Grid reference	SO891999
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
11 January 1925	Opened[1]
31 October 1932	Closed to passengers[1]

Tettenhall railway station was a station on the Wombourne Branch Line, serving the town of Tettenhall in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. It was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1925 and closed in 1932.^[1][2] A significant number of station amenities were supplied but failed to improve patronage at the station, which ultimately led to its closure.

The station site is a rarity in that, despite the removal of the line 33 years after the station closed, it is almost totally complete.

Since 2014, the building has been home to a tea room named 'Cupcake Lane' having previously been a park ranger station. The goods depot behind the station is now a small transport museum.

The station is also the start and the northern end of the South Staffordshire Railway Walk which carries on down towards Wombourne railway station and onto Gornal Halt railway station.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Dunstall Park		Great Western Railway "The Wombourne Branch" (1925–1932)		Compton Halt

References

1. "Tettenhall Station". Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
2. Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 417. OCLC 931112387.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2009). Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury. Middleton Press. figs. 37-39. ISBN 9781906008444. OCLC 286385795.