Trains to Coleshill Parkway - Station Details and further Information on Coleshill Parkway Train Services
Coleshill Parkway Railway Station is at Hams Hall, serving Coleshill in Warwickshire, England.
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, being reduced to single track in 1841 and closing 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, though construction delays led to the scheme running approximately sixteen weeks behind schedule. However, the station opened on Sunday 19 August 2007.
Two trains an hour operate in each direction, two trains towards Leicester, Cambridge and Stansted Airport and two westbound to Birmingham New Street. The station is currently operated by London Midland, though only served by CrossCountry trains. |
