Maxstoke railway station

{{short description|Closed railway station in Warwickshire, England}}

{{About||the current station in Coleshill|Coleshill Parkway railway station|the railway station known as Coleshill from 1923 to 1968|Coleshill railway station}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Maxstoke

| status = Disused

| image = Maxstoke station platform April 2015.jpg

| caption = Maxstoke station platform April 2015

| other_name = Coleshill

| country = England

| coordinates = {{coord|52.4940|-1.6884|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}

| original = Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway

| pregroup = Midland Railway

| postgroup = London, Midland and Scottish Railway

| years = 1839

| events = Station opens as Coleshill

| years1 = 1 January 1917

| events1 = Closed to passenger traffic

| years2 = 1923

| events2 = Renamed Maxstoke

| years3 = 30 April 1939

| events3 = Station closes

}}

File:Coleshill railway station.png

Maxstoke railway station was a railway station opened in 1839 as Coleshill by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway on its original route from Derby to Hampton-in-Arden meeting the London and Birmingham Railway for London. The station served the village of Maxstoke and town of Coleshill in Warwickshire, England.

File:whitacre junct.jpg

History

When the BD&JR built its alternative route in Lawley Street in 1842, the line, known as the Stonebridge Railway, lost its importance and the passenger service finished in 1917.{{cite news |author= |title=A Picturesque Midland Railway Line | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000644/19170106/088/0004 |newspaper=Birmingham Mail |location=England |date=6 January 1917 |access-date=25 January 2022 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}

It was renamed Maxstoke in 1923 (while Forge Mills became Coleshill)

Freight services continued until 30 April 1939.{{cite news |author= |title=LMS Notice. Withdrawal of Goods Train service to and from Maxstoke | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000768/19390415/065/0001 |newspaper=Birmingham Mail |location=England |date=15 April 1939 |access-date=25 January 2022 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} The track was removed soon after and the station was demolished.

On 24 February 2014, a local volunteer from Birmingham, with the full permission of a local farmer, began uncovering the platform fascia and brickwork.{{cn|date=July 2023}}

Stationmasters

P. Gibson ca. 1859, ca. 1866{{cite journal |author= |date=1914 |title=1859–1866 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1728/images/32167_636897_0437-00061?ssrc=&backlabel=Return |journal=Midland Railway Miscellaneous Depts |volume= |issue= |pages=97 |doi= |access-date=24 January 2022}}
Frederick Freeman
William Barber ca. 1868
F. Turner until 1873{{cite journal |author= |date=1871 |title=1871-1879 Coaching |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1728/images/32167_636897_0431-00174?ssrc=&backlabel=Return |journal=Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts |volume= |issue= |pages=297 |doi= |access-date=25 January 2022}}
F. Swinnerton 1873 - 1877
William Reynolds 1877 - 1887{{cite journal |author= |date=1881 |title=1881-1898 Coaching |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1728/images/32167_626640_0604-00154?ssrc=&backlabel=Return |journal=Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts |volume= |issue= |pages=297 |doi= |access-date=25 January 2022}} (formerly station master at Hellifield)
Charles Wells 1887 - 1908{{cite journal |author= |date=1899 |title=1899-1908 Coaching; Piece 1026 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1728/images/32167_626640_0605-00276?ssrc=&backlabel=Return |journal=Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts |volume= |issue= |pages=553 |doi= |access-date=25 January 2022}}
William L. Leary 1908 - ca. 1912

References

Clinker. C. R., (1982) The Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway, Avon-AngliA Publications and Services.
Whishaw, F., (1840) The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland: Practically described and illustrated London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.

External links

[http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/coleshill.htm This station's entry on Warwickshirerailways.com]
[http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/Stations/coleshill.php Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Coleshill station]

Category:Disused railway stations in Warwickshire

Category:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1839

Category:Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917

Category:Former Midland Railway stations

Category:Coleshill, Warwickshire