Wolverhampton 110924 191839 2
A view under the bridge that carries the so-called 'Stour Valley' line from Birmingham into Wolverhampton station, until 1972 suffixed 'High Level' to distinguish it from the Low Level station, which closed to passengers that year. This is the access road to the former Low Level station, whose main building has been repurposed as the Grand Station Conference and Events Venue Wolverhampton.
The pub is the Great Western, appropriately named for the company that built and ran Low Level station, which opened in 1854 after completing the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, known from its initials as Old Worse and Worse. The pub actually predated the railway, an ale house having been opened as The Board five years earlier, the name changing with the opening of the station.
Wolverhampton 110924 191839 2
A view under the bridge that carries the so-called 'Stour Valley' line from Birmingham into Wolverhampton station, until 1972 suffixed 'High Level' to distinguish it from the Low Level station, which closed to passengers that year. This is the access road to the former Low Level station, whose main building has been repurposed as the Grand Station Conference and Events Venue Wolverhampton.
The pub is the Great Western, appropriately named for the company that built and ran Low Level station, which opened in 1854 after completing the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, known from its initials as Old Worse and Worse. The pub actually predated the railway, an ale house having been opened as The Board five years earlier, the name changing with the opening of the station.