Camp Hill railway station was a

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in Camp Hill,

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History

It was opened by the

Birmingham and Gloucester Railway The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (B&GR) was the first name of the railway linking the cities in its name and of the company which pioneered and developed it; the line opened in stages in 1840, using a terminus at Camp Hill in Birmingham. It ...

(B&GR) in 1840 and was its first terminus. Subsequently, the line extended to join the

London and Birmingham Railway The London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom, in operation from 1833 to 1846, when it became part of the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR). The railway line which the company opened in 1838, betw ...

to the latter's Curzon Street terminus. From 1854, New Street opened but because of the necessity for a reversal many trains from the

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line from

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continued to use Camp Hill until New Street was extended in the 1880s. From 1867 to 1904, it was known as Camp Hill and Balsall Heath. The station had a goods yard, which is now the site of a retail estate. It formed part of the

Camp Hill Line The Camp Hill line is a railway line in Birmingham which lies between Kings Norton on the Cross-City Line and Birmingham New Street via Grand Junction on the main lines from and . Local passenger services on the line were ended in the 1940s, ...

, closed to passenger traffic on 27 January 1941.

Incidents

On 26 June 1845, a B&GR passenger train from Gloucester, hauled by one of the company's Philadelphia, United States-built engines, ran into a slow-moving "heavy, powerful" goods engine which was crossing the line from a siding, via a

diamond crossing A double junction is a railway junction where a double-track railway splits into two double track lines. Usually, one line is the main line and carries traffic through the junction at normal speed, while the other track is a branch line that ca ...

, at Camp Hill. The driver of the Gloucester train was badly hurt after jumping from his engine. Some passengers suffered minor injuries, mostly from flying glass. Both engines suffered only minor damage. The driver of the goods engine was deemed at fault, but was discharged by magistrates on the grounds of previous good character. For the same reason the company demoted him to non-driving duties, rather than dismissing him.

Station masters

*Mr. Mewis ca. 1847 *John F. Pepper 1859 - 1894 *John Edward Hemmings 1895 - ???? (formerly station master at Five Ways) *Mr. Avery ???? - 1936 *E. Bosworth ???? - 1939 (afterwards station master at Poplar and South Bromley) *H.J. Turner 1939 - 1941 (also station master at Brighton-Road, and Moseley)

References

External links

Camp Hill station on warwickshirerailways.com
{{West Midlands railway stations, disused Disused railway stations in Birmingham, West Midlands Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840 Former Midland Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1941