 The Great Western Railway saw that it had the Kingswinford Railway, to a canal and colliery at Pensnett; it thought that it could usefully be extended to Oxley, on the line from Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury.It prepared several Bills over time to get authorisation, finally succeeding on 1905.Construction was slow, further delayed by World War I, and the line opened on 11 May 1925.