Coleshill Parkway is a railway station at Hams Hall on the Birmingham to Peterborough railway line, serving Coleshill in

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. Sitting on the site of the former Coleshill station which closed in 1968, the current station was opened in 2007, it is owned by

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and managed by

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train operating company (TOC); all rail services are operated by CrossCountry.

History

First station (1842–1968)

The first station at the site was opened in 1842, by the

Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway The Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway was a British railway company. From Birmingham it connected at Derby with the North Midland Railway and the Midland Counties Railway at what became known as the Tri Junct Station. It now forms part ...

on its line from Whitacre Junction to Lawley Street, and was originally known as Forge Mills. A second station nearby had previously been called 'Coleshill' but this was on the Stonebridge Railway; a different line nearby. In 1923 this second station (which had lost its passenger service in 1917) was renamed ', and Forge Mills station was renamed ''Coleshill''. However this second Coleshill station, the former Forge Mills, was closed in March 1968.

Current station

After the closure of the station. Coleshill was left with no railway connection and as a result. The nearest stations to the town were in Water Orton,

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and

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. In 2006, work started on a new station called ''Coleshill Parkway'' which was built and opened on the site of the former Coleshill (Forge Mills) station. The new station was originally scheduled to open in Spring 2007, but construction delays postponed the opening to 18 September 2007. The new station cost £9 million to build. It was jointly funded by the Department for Transport,

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and the

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, with developer contributions secured by North Warwickshire Borough Council. The opening ceremony was attended by the son of the last stationmaster of the old station.

Facilities

Facilities on site include a 200-space car park and a ticket office. Many signs are in place for local access to the station. The station incorporates a bus interchange providing direct bus connections to

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on the X13 operated by

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and

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on the 75 operated by Claribel Coaches, taking around fifteen minutes to the airport. Tickets for the bus to the airport can be bought from any rail retailer. Tickets to Birmingham International can be routed via New Street or the bus; although the same price these are not interchangeable. The bus connection is often quicker if travelling from the east (Leicester). Coleshill Parkway railway station, Warwickshire, geograph-3827773-by-Nigel-Thompson

Coleshill Parkway railway station, Warwickshire, geograph-3827773-by-Nigel-Thompson

Services

Two trains an hour operate in each direction (including Sundays); two eastbound towards and Leicester, with hourly extensions to ,

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and

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and two westbound to

Birmingham New Street Birmingham New Street is the largest and busiest of the three main railway stations in Birmingham city centre, England, and a central hub of the British railway system. It is a major destination for Avanti West Coast services from , and vi ...

References

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External links

Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Coleshill Parkway railway station
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