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In 1849 the Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway built a grand classical entrance to what subsequently became the High Level station. This is the current station, though only the entrance building survived serious and mundane modernisation in 1967.
The portal is a two storey Romanesque building in grey brick with ashlar dressings. It had two large arches for carriages flanked by smaller ones for pedestrians. There are six tall first floor windows and a large cornice with two small turrets, one with a clock.
This station became owned by the Great Western when it took over the Shrewsbury & Birmingham and it was joInt with the LNWR until 1859. Thereafter the GWR had their own station at Low Level.
Low Level was built by Sir John Fowler, the track layout by Henry Robertson, and the overall roof by I. K. Brunel, and first opened in 1854 (the broad gauge track was converted to standard gauge in 1869). It was built jointly by the GWR and the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway (known to its shareholders and others as the 'old worse and worse'). It is a two storey Italianate building in blue brick with a large pediment and round-headed windows. It is no longer in use as a station, but its fate is hopefully protected by its being a Listed Building.
By road: Off A4150 and A4124 in the centre of Wolverhampton.
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Disused Railway Stations - Wolverhampton Low Level Station