Camp Hill Freight Railway in Birmingham

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Overview

The Camp Hill Freight Line runs for roughly 5.5 miles between Kings Norton Junction and Proof House Junction in Bordesley. There are no stations.

The line carried passengers until 1941. Former stations at Camp Hill, Brighton Road, Moseley, Kings Heath, Hazlewell and Lifford have been demolished.

Some passenger trains travelling through south Birmingham are occasionally re-routed from the Cross City Line to the Camp Hill Line. These are mainly regional services for Wales and the south-west and do not stop in Birmingham.

Planned Revival of Passenger Services (Top)

Local passenger services are to be resumed on the Camp Hill Line and new stations built at Moseley, Kings Heath and Hazelwell. There are plans for a new junction at Sparkbrook that would connect the line to Moor Street Station.

However, it was announced in June 2010 that passenger services would not resume until at least 2014 and that the terminus would be at Curzon Street (News Archive 03/06/10).

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Kings Norton Junction (Top)

Kings Norton Junction connects the Cross City Line to the Camp Hill Freight Line. Passenger services occasionally switch to the Camp Hill Freight Line in order to avoid the west entrance to New Street Station.

Breedon Cross (Top)

Heading north-east from Kings Norton Junction, the Camp Hill Freight Line passes the Stirchley trading estates and a belt of pre-1919 terraced housing before bridging Lifford Lane and travelling above the Birmingham and Worcester Canal at Breedon Cross.

Hazlewell (Top)

From Breedon Cross, the line rides on an embankment past Allens Croft Children's Centre and the Dawberry Playing Fields before travelling beneath Fordhouse Lane on the Outer Circle.

From there, it runs in a tree-lined cutting through suburban Hazlewell, past the rear gardens of semi-detached homes on Priory Road and Pineapple Road and then beneath Cartland Road.

Kings Heath Park (Top)

Heading north-east from Cartland Road, the route skirts Kings Heath Park and another belt of suburban housing before travelling above Dads Lane.

Highbury Park (Top)

From Dads Lane, the line rides on a wooded embankment past Edwardian terraces, Hickory Dickory's Playhouse, Homebase and Highbury Park which was formerly part of Joseph Chamberlain's country estate.

Alcester Road (Top)

The route then crosses beneath Alcester Road, near the north end of Kings Heath High Street, next to the former site of Kings Heath Station.

St Mary's Row (Top)

Heading north from Alcester Road, the line travels through Moseley in a deep cutting flanked by thickets and copses, passing the former site of Moseley Station and travelling through a tunnel beneath St Mary's Row.

Kingswood Avenue (Top)

From St Mary's Row, the route continues in a cutting beneath Woodbridge Road and then travels through Balsall Heath where it runs behind Edwardian terraces on Kingswood Avenue.

Saint Pauls City Farm (Top)

Continuing north from Kingswood Avenue, the line travels on an embankment past the former site of Brighton Road Station.

It then bridges Runcorn Road and Clifton Road, runs through a belt of industrial estates and past the Clifton Road Public Open Space and Saint Paul's Childrens Centre, Nursery and City Farm.

Highgate Road (Top)

From there, the route skirts the Haden industrial estates, running on an embankment above St Pauls Road and Ombersley Road and past the former site of Camp Hill Station on Highgate Road.

Sampson Road (Top)

Heading north-east from Highgate Road, the route travels through Sparkbrook above Montpellier Street, Highgate Place and Krywicks Lane before bridging the A41 Stratford Road and running through the Stratford Road and Sampson Road industrial estates.

Saint Andrews Football Stadium (Top)

From Sampson Road, the line travels above the Birmingham and Warwick Canal and the Leamington-Worcester Railway to which it is connected by a spur.

The route then continues past Bordesley Circus, Bordesley Village, the Kingston Recreation Ground, Pritchett Tower and Saint Andrews Football Stadium.

Garrison Street (Top)

Travelling north from Saint Andrews, the line runs beneath Garrison Street, past the racing tracks at the Wheels Adventure Park and above the Birmingham and Warwick Junction Branch Canal before arriving at Proof House Junction.

Proof House Junction (Top)

Proof House Junction connects the Camp Hill Freight Line to the West Coast Mainline and the Birmingham-Peterborough Line.

From there, freight trains can travel on the West Coast Mainline towards the Black Country, switching to the Cross City Line at Curzon Street Junction and the Birmingham-Walsall Line at Aston Junction North

Alternatively trains can travel eastwards on the West Coast Mainline towards Coventry or switch to the Birmingham-Peterborough Line.

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