Brownhills West railway station

Brownhills West
Brownhills West
Station on heritage railway
	Brownhills West railway station
General information
Location	Chasewater, near Brownhills, Staffordshire; England
Coordinates	52°39′46.00″N 1°57′11.00″W / 52.6627778°N 1.9530556°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.^{[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[edit]

^ ^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.