Wellington is a stop on the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line in Shropshire between Oakengates and Shrewsbury.
Two WMR trains stand at Wellington
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Wolverhampton-Shrewsbury Line)
Station code:
WLN
Opened:
1849
Platforms:
3
The station was opened in 1849 at the junction of the Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway and the Shropshire Union Railway. The station became jointly owned by the Great Western Railway and London North Western Railway in 1854 with through trains to Birmingham Snow Hill. The station became an important interchange with a number of other lines opened including to Market Drayton and Stafford. After the Beeching cuts only one route remained and after the closure of Snow Hill, services to Birmingham went to BirminghamNew Streetinstead.
In the early BR period the station was called Wellington (Salop) [1]. In the 1960s Wellington became part of the new town of Telford. Wellington station was renamed Wellington - Telford West until after the opening of Telford Central in the 1980s. The station was once larger than it is now but just has three platforms now, one is a bay platform that is seldom used. The station is managed by West Midlands Railway who run most of the services at the station though there are also a limited number of Transport for Wales and Avanti West Coast services calling at the station.
Access between the platforms is via a footbridge. The station has a staffed ticket office. The station retains many features from it's rebuilding in 1880.
A Transport for Wales service arrives
Overhead view of the bay
Station view from the road bridge
Under the footbridge
Down the platform
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury (Middleton Press, 2009) Map. XXVIII
