The station was opened by the Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway in 1849. It later became part of the Great Western Railway. The station had a goods yard, which lasted up until 1967. During the late 1930s the station had a staff of twelve [1] though is nowadays an unstaffed station.
Apart from the loss of the goods yard the station is pretty much unchanged from it's GWR days though the main station building was sold following refurbishment in the mid-1990s [2], it became a pub (though is currently closed and for sale). Access between the two platforms is via a standard GWR footbridge. The station is on an embankment with a ramp up from road level to the station. The West end of the platforms are on a bridge over the road adjacent to the station.
The station is managed and served by West Midlands Railway, who maintain an hourly service (with some peak time additions) in each direction.
Former waiting rooms on the right, modern bus shelter on the right
WMR 170 517 departs heading for Shrewsbury
Main station building
View West from the footbridge
On the footbridge
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury (Middleton Press, 2009) Fig. 66 [2] Ibid. Fig. 69
