Portobello railway station (Wolverhampton)

Portobello
General information
Location	Portobello, Willenhall, Wolverhampton England
Coordinates	52°35′07″N 2°04′29″W / 52.5852°N 2.0747°W / 52.5852; -2.0747
Grid reference	SO950985
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Grand Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Key dates
1837	Opened
1873	Closed to passenger traffic

Portobello railway station was a station built on the Grand Junction Railway in 1837.^[1] It served the Portobello area of Willenhall, and was located near to the level crossing on Noose Lane

The station closed in 1873 due to being unprofitable.^[2] The lines through the station are in use today as part of the Walsall to Wolverhampton Line.

There have been recent proposals to examine reopening of the station,.^[3]

References

^ "Portobello Station". Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands.
^ "The History of Portobello". University of Wolverhampton. Archived from the original on 8 October 2006.
^ "(untitled)". West Midlands Local Transport Plan.^{[dead link]}

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Wolverhampton High Level		London and North Western Railway Walsall to Wolverhampton Line		Willenhall Bilston Street
Wednesfield Heath		Grand Junction Railway		Willenhall Bilston Street

Railway stations in the West Midlands county

Open stations

Birmingham	Acocks Green Adderley Park Aston Blake Street Bordesley Bournville Butlers Lane Chester Road Duddeston Erdington Five Ways Four Oaks Gravelly Hill Hall Green Hamstead Jewellery Quarter Kings Norton Lea Hall Longbridge Moor Street New Street Northfield Perry Barr Selly Oak Small Heath Snow Hill Spring Road Stechford Sutton Coldfield Tyseley University Witton Wylde Green Yardley Wood
Coventry	Canley Coventry Coventry Arena Tile Hill
Dudley	Coseley Lye Stourbridge Junction Stourbridge Town
Sandwell	Bescot Stadium Cradley Heath Dudley Port Langley Green Old Hill Rowley Regis Sandwell & Dudley Smethwick Galton Bridge Smethwick Rolfe Street Tame Bridge Parkway The Hawthorns Tipton
Solihull	Berkswell Birmingham International Dorridge Earlswood Hampton-in-Arden Marston Green Olton Shirley Solihull Whitlocks End Widney Manor
Walsall	Bloxwich Bloxwich North Walsall
Wolverhampton	Wolverhampton
Outside West Midlands county, but within the Transport for West Midlands area	Wythall

Disused

Birmingham	Bromford Bridge Camp Hill Castle Bromwich Central Goods Church Road Curzon Street Granville Street Hagley Road Handsworth & Smethwick Handsworth Wood Harborne Hazelwell Hockley Icknield Port Road Kings Heath Lawley Street Lifford Longbridge (1915–1964) Monument Lane Moseley Penns Rotton Park Road Rubery Saltley Soho & Winson Green Soho Road Somerset Road Sutton Park Sutton Coldfield Town Winson Green
Coventry	Coundon Road Daimler Halt Foleshill Longford & Exhall
Dudley	Baptist End Blowers Green Brettell Lane Brierley Hill Brockmoor Halt Bromley Halt Darby End Dudley Gornal Halt Halesowen Harts Hill Old Hill High Street Pensnett Halt Round Oak Windmill End
Sandwell	Albion Great Bridge North Great Bridge South Newton Road Oldbury Princes End & Coseley Rood End Smethwick West Soho Spon Lane Swan Village Tipton Five Ways Wednesbury Central Wednesbury Town West Bromwich
Walsall	Aldridge Bentley Brownhills Brownhills Watling Street Darlaston Darlaston James Bridge North Walsall Pelsall Pleck Rushall Short Heath Streetly Walsall Wood Willenhall Bilston Street Willenhall Stafford Street Wood Green
Wolverhampton	Bilston Central Bilston West Bradley and Moxley Bushbury Compton Halt Daisy Bank Dunstall Park Ettingshall Road Heath Town Monmore Green Portobello Priestfield Stafford Road Tettenhall Wednesfield Heath for Wolverhampton Wednesfield Wolverhampton Low Level Wolverhampton Temporary

Heritage
Tyseley, Warwick Road

Rail infrastructure projects in the United Kingdom

Current projects

Projects	Camden Highline Camp Hill line East West Rail (Oxford to Bedford section) High Speed 2 Northern Hub Northern Powerhouse Rail (Hull–Liverpool) Northumberland Line South Wales Metro West Midlands Metro extension to Brierley Hill
Electrification	Bolton–Wigan East Kilbride line Kettering–Wigston Welsh Valleys
Stations	Ashington Ashley Down Beam Park Beaulieu Park Blyth Bebside Bedlington Belfast Grand Central Birmingham Curzon Street Birmingham Interchange Butetown Cambridge South Darlaston James Bridge Kings Heath Moseley Village Newsham Northumberland Park Old Oak Common Pineapple Road Seaton Delaval White Rose Willenhall Winslow

Proposed projects

Projects	Aberdare–Hirwaun Line reopening Aberdeen Crossrail Bakerloo line extension Barrow Hill line reopening Bristol Airport Rail Link Brentford branch line reopening Bolton–Bury line reopening Bordon Light Railway reopening Carmarthen–Aberystwyth line reopening Cirencester branch line reopening Consett–Newcastle line reopening Coventry Very Light Rail Cranleigh line reopening Crossrail 2 (London) Crossrail Glasgow Darlaston Loop reopening Parts of Electric Spine (including Coventry–Leamington Spa Coventry–Nuneaton Leamington Spa–Aynho Junction) Bedford–Cambridge reopening Fawley branch line reopening Fleetwood branch line reopening Formartine and Buchan Railway reopening Maid Marian line reopening MetroWest (Bristol) Hall Farm Curve reopening Heathfield Branch Line reopening Heathrow Airport transport proposals including Heathrow Airtrack Heathrow Southern Railway Heathwick Western Rail Approach to Heathrow Leicester–Burton upon Trent line reopening Lisburn–Antrim line reopening Cowley branch line reopening North and West London Light Railway Northern Powerhouse Rail North Wales Metro Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway reopening Ringwood branch line reopening R25 Orbital Skelmersdale branch reopening Skipton–Colne Rail Link Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway reopening South Staffordshire line reopening Southern Crossrail St Andrews Rail Link Sutton Link Sutton Park line reopening Swansea Bay and West Wales Metro Walsall–Wolverhampton line reopening Wealden Line (Uckfield–Lewes reopening) West London Orbital Wisbech line reopening Windsor Link Railway York–Beverley line reopening
Stations	Armagh Allandale Aldergrove Aldridge Arthington Ashley Hill Ashton Gate Balgray railway station Balsall Heath Barcombe Mills Beechwood Beeston Castle and Tarporley Bonnybridge Bordon Bradford St James Bramley Broughton (Flintshire) Brownhills Brentford Golden Mile Brinsford Parkway Burgess Park Caerleon Camberwell Cambourne (Cambridgeshire) Canterbury Parkway Cardiff Parkway Carno Carr Mill Carterton Castlethorpe Castle Bromwich Castle Green Charfield Cheadle Chipping Sodbury Claydon Cottam Parkway Corsham Cranleigh Cross Hills Crwys Road Cullompton Cwm Dalston Deeside Parkway Devizes Parkway Ditton Drake Street East Midlands Hub Eastriggs Edwinstowe Elland Eynsham Errol Ferryhill Finningley Fleetwood Fort Parkway Fraserburgh Gabalfa Glasgow Airport Glasgow Cross Glencarse Gloucestershire Parkway Gorbals Greenfield (Flintshire) Hatch End Haxby Heathrow Hub Heathfield Henbury Hirwaun Horfield Horsforth Woodside Hythe Hythe Road Isfield King's Road Chelsea Ladbroke Grove Langport and Somerton Leeds Bradford Airport Parkway Leeds New Lane Liverpool Baltic Lisburn West Llanwern Long Ashton Maiden Lane Manchester Airport High Speed March Elm Road Meir Monkerton Moorside Mouldon Hill Newbiggin-by-the-Sea Newport West Newport West Central Newton Longville North Filton Okehampton Interchange Old Kent Road Old Oak Common Lane Oxford Science Park Oxford Business Park Ollerton Park Farm Pelsall Peterhead Pill Portishead Portobello Poyle Richhill Roseberry Parkway Rugby Parkway Rushden Parkway Saltford Sharnal Street / Hoo Oxford Science Park Silvertown Skelmersdale Slattocks St Anne's Park St Clears Stanley Park Stockingford Stonehouse (Bristol Road) Surrey Canal Thamesmead Templepatrick Tempsford Thornhill (Dumfries) Thornton Thorpe Park Torquay Gateway Town Meadow Vauxhall (Merseyside) Wantage Road Warsop Waverley Weedon Wellington Windsor Royal Witney Wixams Woodchurch Woodhorn Wootton Bassett Wormit Wrexham North Wrexham South
Heritage railways	Don Valley Railway Norfolk Orbital Railway Wisbech and March Bramley Line Honeybourne Line

Cancelled projects

Projects

Stations

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