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, it is owned by Network Rail and managed by West Midlands Trains train operating company (TOC); all rail services are operated by CrossCountry.

Coleshill Parkway
General information
Location	Coleshill, North 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
2016/17	0.287 million
2017/18	0.298 million
2018/19	0.294 million
2019/20	0.264 million
2020/21	38,466
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.[2]

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

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 in 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.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]

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 Birmingham Airport on the 75 operated by Claribel Coaches, 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).

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.[6]

References

• "Bridges in place for new station". BBC. 15 November 2006. Retrieved 10 April 2007.
• "Coleshill Parkway Opens 19th August 2007". Warwickshire County Council. 29 March 2007. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 17 April 2007.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coleshill Parkway railway station.

• Train times and station information for Coleshill Parkway railway station from National Rail
• Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Coleshill Parkway railway station
• Coleshill {Forge Mills} entry on Warwickshirerailways.com

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