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Brownhills West railway station

Coordinates: 52°39′46.00″N 1°57′11.00″W / 52.6627778°N 1.9530556°W / 52.6627778; -1.9530556
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Brownhills West
Station on heritage railway
Brownhills West railway station
General information
LocationChasewater, near Brownhills, Staffordshire
England
Coordinates52°39′46.00″N 1°57′11.00″W / 52.6627778°N 1.9530556°W / 52.6627778; -1.9530556
Grid referenceSK032072
Managed byChasewater Railway
Platforms1

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

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  1. ^ 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  Heritage railways Following station
Terminus   Chasewater Railway   Norton Lakeside Halt