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This cache belongs to the SideTracked series. It is not designed to take you to a magical place with a breath taking view. It's a distraction for the weary traveller, but anyone else can go and find it too. More Information can be found at the SideTracked Website
The station was built at the junction of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway (S&BR) with the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company's line from Stafford, via Newport. It was opened on 1 June 1849. The S&BR reached Wolverhampton Low Level later that year, but was frustrated in their attempts to reach Birmingham by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR); it was not until both they and the neighbouring Shrewsbury and Chester Railway became part the Great Western Railway (GWR) in November 1854 that trains could run to Birmingham Snow Hill. Wellington thereafter was run jointly by the LNWR and GWR until the 1923 Grouping.