Brownhills West railway station is a heritage railway station on the Chasewater Railway in Staffordshire. It is the western terminus of the Chasewater Railway.[citation needed] The present facilities were constructed in the early 2000s after the original station, at a different location, stood in the way of the M6 Toll motorway.[1]
Brownhills West | |
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Station on heritage railway | |
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General information | |
Location | Chasewater, near Brownhills, Staffordshire England |
Coordinates | 52°39′46.00″N 1°57′11.00″W |
Grid reference | SK032072 |
Managed by | Chasewater Railway |
Platforms | 1 |
Development of the railway had been inhibited by the M6 plans since 1980. The cost of the new facilities at Brownhills West were met with £500,000 from the motorway developers, £412,000 from the European Union mainly for the museum building, and a smaller amount from Lichfield District Council. The new route of the railway provided a good view of a new lake and park, another spinoff of the M6 development. The lake had previously been a disused clay pit used to dump coal-mining waste.[1]
The station buildings house Chasewater Railway Museum.
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Terminus | Chasewater Railway | Norton Lakeside Halt |
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