Most old mining towns had a railway station which, if there was enough traffic, had a hotel nearby. Dudley (or Duddeley) was a booming mining town in the West Midlands of west-central England that was once the center of the Black Country – so called because of the air darkened by the coal mines, coking, iron foundries, glass factories, brickworks and steel mills. Dudley’s railway station was opened in 1850 and The Station Hotel in 1896. It was demolished and expanded in 1936 and eventually acquired the ghosts that made it a popular site for tourists, wedding parties (really!) and paranormal investigations – the last helped designate it one of the most haunted locations in England. Unfortunately, even ghosts can’t fight the effects of the economy and the pandemic, so the famed, once glamorous Dudley Station Hotel has closed. Before it’s demolished for good, let’s give its ghosts one 15 minutes of fame.