Wolverhampton Low Level Station (Wolverhampton)

 train station, Grade II Listed (UK)

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Wolverhampton Low Level was a railway station on Sun Street, in Springfield, Wolverhampton, England.

It was built by the Great Western Railway, on their route from London (Paddington) to Birkenhead via Birmingham (Snow Hill). It was the most northerly broad gauge station on the Great Western network.

It opened in 1854, although work on the station's construction was not completed until late 1855. The station was initially called Wolverhampton Joint and was renamed to Wolverhampton Low Level in April 1856, at the same time as the nearby London and North Western Railway station was renamed as Wolverhampton High Level.

The station was converted to standard gauge in 1869, and remained basically the same until 1922, when new booking office was built within the booking hall, and a new telegraph department was added to the stationmaster's office. The platforms were extended and the passenger footbridge was replaced. The overall roof had corroded badly and was replaced with standard GWR platform canopies.

In July 1939, an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at the station, wrecking the parcels office area.