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| Handsworth Linking Line |
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The Handsworth Linking Line runs for 2.25 miles between Soho
Junction and Perry Barr Junction via Handsworth. The line enables freight trains to avoid central Birmingham or to be diverted from the east to the west entrance of New Street Station and vice versa. It also provides an alternative passenger route between Birmingham New Street and Walsall that avoids Curzon Street Junction, Aston Junction, Aston Station, Duddeston Station, Witton Station and Perry Barr Station. |
| Map of Handsworth Linking Line (Top) |
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| Soho Junction (Top) |
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Trains leaving the western side of
New Street
Station, or trains travelling from south Birmingham that
turn westwards at New Street Junction, will travel on the
West Coast Mainline through Winson Green towards
Wolverhampton. Trains travelling from Wolverhampton towards the western entrance of New Street Station will also travel on the West Coast Mainline through Winson Green. All these trains may switch to the Handsworth Linking Line at Soho Junction. |
| Black Patch (Top) |
| Soho Junction is located amidst the Vittoria Street trading estates, the Wellington Street Recreation Ground, Black Patch Park and a belt of Edwardian terraced houses. |
| Beeton Road (Top) |
| From Soho Junction, the Handsworth Linking Line runs on an embankment above Perrott Street, past the Merry Hill Allotments and the narrow strip gardens behind the Edwardian terraces on Beeton Road. |
| Handsworth New Road on the Outer Circle (Top) |
| Heading north-east from Beeton Road, the route passes the Great Western Industrial Estate and is carried by viaduct above the Leamington-Worcester Line, the Midland Metro and Handsworth New Road on the Outer Circle. |
| Bacchus Road (Top) |
| From Handsworth New Road, the route continues through Soho, travelling above Bacchus Road and past the Bacchus Road Recreation Ground. |
| Scholars Road (Top) |
| Heading north-east from Bacchus Road, the line bridges Park Road before entering a tree-lined cutting that carries it past the Edwardian terraces on Grasmere Road and an urban playground on Scholars Road. |
| Soho Road (Top) |
| From Scholars Road, the route runs beneath the Soho Road Viaduct and past the former site of Soho Station which closed in 1941. |
| Handsworth Park (Top) |
| Heading north from Soho Road, the line runs in a deep wooded cutting past another belt of Edwardian terraces and through Handsworth Park, past the boating lake and the former site of Handsworth Wood Station which closed in 1941. |
| Handsworth Wood (Top) |
| From Handsworth Park, the route continues northwards through a 50-metre tunnel beneath Hamstead Road before emerging into another tree-lined cutting that carries it through suburban Handsworth Wood and beneath Wood Lane. |
| Wood Lane (Top) |
| From Wood Lane, the route travels past a belt of suburban semis and arrives at Perry Barr Junction by the Wood Lane Playing Fields, Lea Hall Allotments and Perry Hall Park. |
| Perry Barr Junction (Top) |
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Perry Barr Junction connects the Handsworth Linking Line and the
Birmingham-Walsall Line. Freight trains can continue west
towards the Black Country or can turn east through Birmingham. Trains heading through Birmingham may avoid the city centre by switching to the Stechford Avoiding Line at Aston Junction South. |
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