Trains at: Wolverhampton, WCML, 05/02/22
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- A very windy but enjoyable time spent at Wolverhampton on the West Coast Mainline where we see countless services from West Midlands Railway, London Northwestern Railway, Cross Country, Transport For Wales and Avanti West Coast.
The current station wasn't opened until 1852, before that there were two stations opened for the town. The first one was opened on the edge of the town in 1837 on the Grand Junction Railway. It was renamed in 1855 to Wednesfield Heath and subsequently closed in 1873.
The second station that was opened was courtesy of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway in 1849 was built as a terminus station, albeit a temporary one not to far away from where the current station now resides.
The present station was opened in 1852 by the Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Stour Valley Railway which was a subsidiary of the London and Northwestern Railway. When the station was opened it was named Wolverhampton Queen Street, the only evidence of this remaining now is the Queen's Building which is the gateway to Railway Drive which was the original approach to the station. The building was once the carriage entrance to the station but is now the Wolverhampton bus station.
After two years of opening of Wolverhampton Queen Street the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway opened a station behind the older one on a lower level which gave the station its name of Wolverhampton Low Level from 1856, it wasn't until 1885 that Wolverhampton Queen Street was renamed Wolverhampton High Leve
Wolverhampton was completely rebuilt from 1964 to 1967 was part of the West Coast Mainline modernisation plans by a chap called Ray Moorcroft. The plans would allow for 3 through platforms, during this work some trains were diverted via the lower level until 1968 when it was closed completely.
The current platform 5 which is a bay platform was once a parcels sidings that was reconfigured for passenger usage.
In 2004 a new through platform was built on a very limited used sidings, thus allowing for a greater put through of traffic and passenger numbers.
Work is currently taking place for the extension of the Midland Metro system.
My next station will be Stoke on Trent.
If you have any trackside locations or stations you would like to see me go to then please do let me know and I will see what I can do for you.
You can find me on Facebook through the group Tornado922, there you will find regular updates, videos and photos from all of my goings on throughout 2022.
You can also find me on Instagram through the name tornado922 where it isn't just rail related content that I produce.
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Nice one and enjoyed you latest update .Cheers David.
Thanks very much
@@Tornado922Your welcome and thanks very much for replying to my comment. It's nice to see other people's work to get idea to improve my Channel. Take care DD.
Another great video 🍺👍
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hi tornado nice variety of trains at wolverhampton looking forward to stoke on trent
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Interesting at Wolverhampton at the western end of the station where much of the track is of the old bull-head variety. Can't be many places in the UK where tilting and other high speed trains still work daily over such old trackwork!
I would be very surprised if that were still the case
Cool variety of traffic. Great video once again. :)
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pretty busy station, had a look at the pre Covid stats and it is a 5 million plus station. thank you very much
It will be interesting to see how busy station will become throughout the rest of the year
Stella of a station Wolverhampton is. But... EMR Purple Turbostars has returned home!? Feel sorry for them, they must have been homesick :-)
They probably put up a protest haha
Nice to see Wolverhampton, I worked there from 1974 till November 1989 when I made the Move to York, a lot has changed but do recognise some parts, had good memories of the place.
This was my first time back here in about 4 or 5 years and it changed a fair amount in that time
Great video👍👍👍
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Nice video at Wolverhampton
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4:16 I was standing at the front set of doors on 350373 just as this was being filmed!
You're claim to fame!
@@Tornado922 indeed! 😂
Excellent 👍👍👍 bro
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Great video
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Nice variety in traffic you caught there, including the two EMR-coloured 170s. Hope you weren’t too badly affected by the massive storm
Thanks very much, I did manage to get away with very little damage as a result of the storm
Oh my god my local station I’m so happy
I hope you enjoyed watching this :)
Great vid
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Other amazing video legend
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Nice railway video Tornado922.
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Great video, I missed you for I went there in the evening and was a Birmingham with you in the morning but couldn’t find you, next time you go I’ll make sure I’m out south bound pt 5
*platform 6
@@ALTrainSpots I'm sur we'll get something sorted
Definitely coming back to do some proper filming at Wolverhampton this year as had storage issues last year so missed filming trains! Nice Trainspotting.
hope you have a great time when you come here
@@Tornado922 Been now went a few weeks ago.
Nice vid
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Maybe next you could do the Hertford loop on the ecml
I'll give it a think
Oi You Do Trains at Nailsea And Backwell please.
Try saying please.
@@Tornado922 I already added that in.
I’m certain trains between Wolverhampton and Birmingham New Street Travel at 70-95 mph as the section of track is in a mainly built up area.
They most likely do
An excellent video there sir! The remaining West Midlands Railway 170's , some of which shortened from 170/6's are now in the East Midlands Railway livery ahead of transfer to the company once the class 196's are introduced. The East Midlands Railway purple with West Midlands Railway branding actually looks all right to be fair! Blimey it was windy on Friday! I'm guessing next Saturday should be Stoke on Trent followed on by Crewe. I might be wrong but I'm sure it must be!
The railways are slowly but surely becoming more interesting once again
@@Tornado922 They are but more so with the HST's for Cross Country back running about, which they were before the end of 2021 having been temporarily being taken out of service. I've recently seen not too many posts as to the station updates which you did say that you would be doing more often. Mind you that previous one was from a while back! I'm sure there will be another one soon, so I'll keep my eyes peeled!
Was this yesterday? Good to see you made it out even though the weather was very bad, was very difficult here in Sleaford, had to get off my bike in places and walk due to the dreadful strong wind!
The date is literally stated in the title of the video
@@srgntsylveon2919 oops yes lol 🤦
great vid! I don't think wolves were playing on the day you were filming this vid
They were, I was at the game funnily enough 🤣
@@chxrliethompson will you come to Wolverhampton?
Ahh nice you were in the west Midlands im I'm the East Midlands you're in Wolverhampton im in Nottingham 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Do you make the trip to Lincoln often Keiran? Recently moved from Birmingham to Sleaford and love it there, another I recently visited was Retford, an interesting station!
@@danielbate13 never been to Lincoln this is the first day I went this far by myself. Might go to Lincoln one day.
@@keiranclarke2955 ah ok, it's well worth it, maybe in the better weather eh?! 😊😉👍
@@danielbate13 I will keep that in mind. Would love to come to Lincoln one day
You forgot to say cross-country
Thanks for letting me know
A 2 carriage train on a nearly a 4 hour journey is a joke. TFW need to sort out there short formed trains
I've been saying that for years