Coleshill Parkway railway station

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

Coleshill Parkway is a railway station at Hams Hall on the Birmingham to Peterborough railway line, serving Coleshill in Warwickshire, England. Sitting on the site of the former Coleshill station which closed in 1968, the current station was opened in 2007. Unusually it is not owned by Network Rail.^[2] It is managed by West Midlands Trains, although all rail services are operated by CrossCountry.

Coleshill Parkway
General information
Location	Coleshill, Warwickshire England
Grid reference	SP198910
Managed by	West Midlands Trains
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	CEH
Classification	DfT category E
Key dates
10 February 1842	Opened as Forge Mills
1 November 1849	Renamed Forge Mills for Coleshill
1 April 1904	Renamed Forge Mills
9 July 1923	Renamed Coleshill
4 March 1968	Closed[1]
18 September 2007	Reopened as Coleshill Parkway
Passengers
2019/20	0.264 million
2020/21	38,466
2021/22	0.128 million
2022/23	0.164 million
2023/24	0.187 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

First station (1842–1968)

The first station at the site was opened in 1842, by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway 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 Maxstoke, and Forge Mills station was renamed Coleshill.^[3]

However this second Coleshill station, the former Forge Mills, was closed in March 1968.^[4]

The site of Forge Mills station.

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 Water Orton, Atherstone and Marston Green. 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.^[5] 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.^[6] It was jointly funded by the Department for Transport, Warwickshire County Council and the John Laing Group, 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.^[7]

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 Birmingham city centre on the X13 operated by National Express West Midlands and infrequent journeys on service 76 to Sutton Coldfield and Tamworth which is operated by Diamond Bus. Previously a service to Birmingham Airport was operated but this service (Claribel Coaches 75) was withdrawn in 2022.

Services

Two trains an hour operate in each direction (including Sundays); two eastbound towards Nuneaton and Leicester, with hourly extensions to Peterborough, Cambridge and Stansted Airport and two westbound to Birmingham New Street.^[8]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Water Orton		CrossCountry Birmingham - Leicester		Nuneaton
Birmingham New Street
	Historical railways
Water Orton		Midland Railway Birmingham–Peterborough line		Whitacre Junction