Dudley Port Junction offered the area's largest volume of loco-hauled passenger trains, coupled with total freedom to roam and relax.
For the rail enthusiast of the millennium period, it had everything. A relaxed, canalside setting, a range of photo vantage points within walking distance, and in the thick of the day an average of six or so loco-hauled trains per hour. Diesel and electric. Passenger and freight. Located on the Stour Valley line between Dudley Port station and the site of the former Albion station, it was (and still is - although things have changed in the past two decades) Dudley Port Junction.
Dudley Port Junction is so-called not because of any railway divergence, but because it sits on the junction of Thomas Telford's BCN Main Line Birmingham to Wolverhampton Canal, and the canal's Netherton Branch, leading across via Netherton Tunnel to the Dudley Canal.