Brownhills West railway station

Brownhills West
Brownhills West
	Station on heritage railway
Location	Chasewater, near Brownhills, Staffordshire; England
Coordinates	52°39′46.00″N 1°57′11.00″W
Grid reference	SK032072
Managed by	Chasewater Railway
Platforms	1

Brownhills West railway station is a heritage railway station on the Chasewater Railway in Staffordshire. It is the western terminus of the Chasewater Railway. 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

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
Terminus		Chasewater Railway		Norton Lakeside Halt

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[Cox-1] 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.