Brownhills West railway station
52°39′46.00″N 1°57′11.00″W / 52.6627778°N 1.9530556°W / 52.6627778; -1.9530556
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]
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.
References
- ^ a b L.J. Cox, "A contractor's view of policy", part 8 in, Peter Baldwin, Robert Baldwin (eds), The Motorway Achievement, vol. 1, Thomas Telford, 2002 ISBN 9780727731968.
| Preceding station |  Heritage railways | Following station | ||
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| Terminus | Chasewater Railway | Norton Lakeside Halt | ||
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Railway stations in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
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| Cross-City Line | |
| Cross Country Route | |
| Rugby–Birmingham–Stafford line | |
| Stafford–Manchester line | |
| Trent Valley line (WCML) | |
| Wolverhampton–Shrewsbury line |
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| Chasewater Railway |
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| Churnet Valley Railway | |
| Foxfield Railway |
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