Camp Hill | |
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Camp Hill Railway Station, at an unknown date
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Location | |
Place | Balsall Heath |
Area | City of Birmingham |
Coordinates | 52°27′43″N 1°53′00″W / 52.4620°N 1.8832°WCoordinates: 52°27′43″N 1°53′00″W / 52.4620°N 1.8832°W |
Grid reference | SP080849 |
Operations | |
Original company | Birmingham and Gloucester Railway |
Pre-grouping | Midland Railway |
Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
Platforms | 2 |
History | |
17 December 1840 | Station opens |
17 August 1841 | closed |
15 November 1841 | reopened |
1 December 1867 | closed then reopened as Camp Hill and Balsall Heath |
1 April 1904 | renamed Camp Hill |
27 January 1941 | Station closes |
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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Camp Hill railway station was a railway station in Camp Hill, Birmingham opened by the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway in 1840 and was its first terminus.
Subsequently, the line extended to join the London and Birmingham Railway to the latter's Curzon Street terminus.
From 1854, New Street opened but because of the necessity for a reversal many trains from the Midland Railway line from Derby 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, closed to passenger traffic in 1941.
In July 2017, it was proposed that the station could reopen as part of the plans to reopen the line through the site for passengers after the new metro mayor revised plans for the reopening of the line with a stop at Balsall Heath as well as Moseley, Kings Heath and Hazelwell. The station would be called Balsall Heath.