Coleshill Parkway railway station

For the railway station known as Coleshill from 1839 to 1923, see Maxstoke railway station.

For the railway station known as Coleshill from 1923 to 1968, see Coleshill railway station.

Coleshill Parkway
Location
Place	Coleshill
Local authority	North Warwickshire
Operations
Station code	CEH
Managed by	London Midland
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2007/08 *	47,955
2008/09 *	104,532
2009/10 *	130,640
History
Opened 2007 (2007)
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Coleshill Parkway from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Coleshill Parkway Railway Station is a station at Hams Hall on the Birmingham to Peterborough railway line, serving Coleshill in Warwickshire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by London Midland train operating company (TOC); all rail services are operated by CrossCountry.

History

Historically two railway stations have borne the name Coleshill, the first was on the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway (later part of the Midland Railway), opened in 1839 and running from Derby to Hampton-in-Arden via Whitacre Heath. However, in 1840 a new line from Whitacre into Birmingham was opened and became the favoured route, and so the Whitacre to Hampton section, including Coleshill, was demoted to a little-used branch line known as the Stonebridge Railway, then reduced to a single track in 1841, and closed to passengers in 1917 as a wartime economy measure. On the Whitacre to Birmingham stretch was a station called Forge Mills; this was renamed Coleshill in 1923 (the original station on the Hampton line, still in use as a freight facility until 1935, was simultaneously renamed Maxstoke), but this second Coleshill station, the former Forge Mills, closed in March 1968.

The new station was originally scheduled to open in March 2007, but construction delays postponed the opening to 19 August 2007.

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 four direct bus connections per hour to Tamworth and Birmingham International Airport, 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).

Image gallery

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  Welcome to Coleshill Parkway

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  Onlookers watch the arrival of 170514

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  170514 stands at Coleshill Parkway prior to departure

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Services

Two trains an hour operate in each direction, two eastbound towards Leicester, Cambridge and Stansted Airport and two westbound to Birmingham New Street.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Water Orton		CrossCountry Birmingham-Leicester		Nuneaton
Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street		CrossCountry Birmingham-Stansted Airport		Nuneaton

References

• "Bridges in place for new station". BBC. 2006-11-15. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/england/coventry_warwickshire/6152678.stm. Retrieved 2007-04-10. 
• "Coleshill Parkway Opens 19th August 2007". Warwickshire County Council. 2007-03-29. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20070928002153/http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/corporate/pressr.nsf/(DisplayLinks)/2E425061F8E80834802572AD003022E5. Retrieved 2007-04-17. 

External links

• Train times and station information for Coleshill Parkway railway station from National Rail
• Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Coleshill Parkway railway station

Coordinates: 52°31′01″N 1°42′29″W / 52.517°N 1.708°W / 52.517; -1.708