Kings Heath railway station was a railway station in

Kings Heath Kings Heath (historically, and still occasionally King's Heath) is a suburb of south Birmingham, England, four miles south of the city centre. Historically in Worcestershire, it is the next suburb south from Moseley on the A435, Alcester road. ...

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the We ...

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History

The station was built on 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 ...

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, ...

, and operated between 1840 and 1941. On opening, it was known as ''Moseley Station''. On the opening of Moseley station in 1867, the station was renamed. The station finally closed to passengers on 27 January 1941 due to the

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, although it was used for freight into the 1960s. It was demolished at some point thereafter.

Station masters

*G. Potter 1860 - 1872 *W. Sibley 1872 - 1874 *A. Nowell 1874 - 1875 *H. Wells 1875 - 1877 *George Stroud 1877 - 1904 *John H. Brayne 1904 - 1914 - ???? (formerly station master at Selly Oak) *J.W. Varty 1930 - 1936 *Harry Snary 1937 - 1941 - ???? (formerly station master at Gretton and Harringworth. Also station master at Hazelwell from 1937)

Future

Proposals have been made to re-open the station, along with others on the

, for passenger use. In 2019, the project to re-open the stations at Moseley, Kings Heath and Hazelwell received £15 million in Government funding, with construction due to start in 2020 and aimed for completion in time for the

2022 Commonwealth Games The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England b ...

. In March 2021 it was announced that funding had been found for the project, with an opening date expected in 2023.

References

Disused railway stations in Birmingham, West Midlands Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1941 Former Midland Railway stations {{WestMidlands-railstation-stub