IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Dunstall Hill Industrial Estate, Gorsebrook Road, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0PJ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Dunstall Hill Industrial Estate, Gorsebrook Road, WV6 0PJ by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (181 Images Found)
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Ex GWR workshop site
Dunstall Hill Industrial Estate occupies the site of the former GWR Stafford Road Works. The works originally built locomotives until production was transferred to Swindon in 1908 but it remained an important railway workshop for heavy repairs and maintenance. The works eventually closed in the Beeching era.
Image: © John M
Taken: 21 Apr 2007
0.02 miles
2
Chord from WCML joining Shrewsbury Line
The electrified section of line continues over the Dunstall Viaduct to the West Coast Traincare Depot at Oxley Sidings. The land on the right was formerly the GWR's Stafford Road Works.
Image: © John M
Taken: 21 Apr 2007
0.06 miles
3
Dunstall Hill Junction
The view of the junction with Dunstall Avenue in Wolverhampton.
Image: © Gordon Griffiths
Taken: 4 Mar 2015
0.07 miles
5
Dunstall Hill Trading Estate
From the railway.
Image: © Andrew Abbott
Taken: 25 May 2019
0.08 miles
6
Lone Tree on Dunstall Hill
Looking down the slope of the hill towards the racecourse and the sandstone ridge at Tettenhall. In past years the feature on the landscape would have been the three chimney stacks at Courtaulds.
Image: © John M
Taken: 16 Jun 2007
0.08 miles
7
Stafford Road at the GW bridges
The A449 is about to pass under the former Great Western Railway line from Wolverhampton (Low Level) to Shrewsbury. The line is still used for coal traffic to/from Ironbridge electricity generating station.
Image: © J Whatley
Taken: 6 Sep 2010
0.09 miles
8
End of the line for GWR workshops
The area south of Gorsebrook Road was the Stafford Road Works of the GWR from 1849. Between 1859 and 1908 over 800 locomotives were built on this site. The workshops finally closed in 1964. The rail track here was put in at great expense to remember this trade. The works were up on the top of the embankment.
Image: © John M
Taken: 25 Mar 2007
0.10 miles
9
A449 with railway bridges
This line (part of the GWR) is still used for coal traffic to/from Ironbridge electricity generating station. Presumably there was one bridge originally, with a second being added when the dual carriageway was built.
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 19 Oct 2011
0.10 miles
10
Dunstall Viaduct from Gorsebrook Road
The blue brick viaduct carries the main line north from Wolverhampton towards Crewe. The area south of Gorsebrook Road was the Stafford Road Works of the GWR from 1849. Between 1859 and 1908 over 800 locomotives were built on this site. The workshops finally closed in 1964. The rail track here was put in at great expense to remember this trade.
I am told that when the circus came to town in the 1950s that the elephants were housed in the grey building. They were walked here from the nearby railway halt.
Image: © John M
Taken: 25 Mar 2007
0.11 miles