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This OS cut mark can be found on the NW parapet of the railway bridge on Park Lane East. It marks a point 135.511m above mean sea level.

The Dudley to Walsall line is currently disused but may form part of the proposed 5W's extension to the Midland Metro.

View on disused rail track, beneath the current Dudley Port station. In better times, there was two stations here - one on the main (current) Birmingham to Wolverhampton line, and another running north-east to south-west, from Walsall all the way through to Dudley and Stourbridge beyond. The horizontal wall in the archway, is the footpath between the current Dudley Port station and main car park.

The former South Staffordshire line between Walsall and Dudley, looking towards Dudley from the Lower Church Lane bridge. After more than two decades of proposals, work has finally begun on using the formation for an extension to the Midland Metro light rail system, hence the clearance of vegetation and levelling of the trackbed seen here. About a quarter of a mile ahead, the formation passes beneath the Wolverhampton to Birmingham railway line, and the Birmingham Main Line Canal, adjacent to Dudley Port railway station.

This commuter car park is quiet on a Sunday morning.

Taken from alongside Birmingham Canal navigation, which runs for miles alongside the Birmingham - Wolverhampton railway. The island platforms I remember at this time were quite dilapidated. I also remember the 'thunder' as express trains passed through - hold tight on the platforms or you'd get dragged off by the draft !

View from footpath, next to Dudley Port station car park. Looking under the mainline and canal, nature takes its course, and still no signs of confidence, 9 years previously Image, that the route may become a tram route between Walsall, Wednesbury and Dudley.

On the Birmingham Canal Navigation.

Taken looking in the 'down' direction towards Wolverhampton. Within living memory an intensive passenger service operated in the area. Dudley Port once had at least five platforms situated at two levels. From the high level platforms trains served Wolverhampton, Birmingham (New Street) and Dudley and one could get to Walsall, Birmingham (Snow Hill) and Dudley from the low level platforms. Today the high level still has a service between New Street and Wolverhampton and there is talk of reopening the low level lines to enable an extension of the Midland Metro from Wednesbury to Dudley.

An unusual island platform design, forced on the railway by the proximity of the adjacent canal, both platform accommodation and the booking office have a rather neglected feel, though the platform information displays are, typically for the Centro travel area, clear and accurate.