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The Camp Hill line will offer two trains per hour, with one train per hour on Sundays

Three new railway stations on Birmingham's Camp Hill Line are expected to open to passengers early next year.

The Kings Heath, Pineapple Road and Moseley Village stations will replace original stations that closed in 1941, due to coal shortages during the war.

Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) said the stations would "provide faster, more reliable transport for people" for people in the area, connecting south Birmingham to the rail network for the first time in 80 years.

Services will run into and out of Birmingham New Street, with two trains per hour Monday to Saturday and one train per hour on Sundays.

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The Kings Heath station will replace the station that used to stand opposite Kings Heath High Street, with Pineapple Road located on the site of the station on Cartland Road.

The Moseley Village station is being built on the former site between Woodbridge Road and St Mary's Row.

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The new stations are expected to open some point early next year. No exact date has yet been fixed but it is looking like it could be early 2026.

TfWM, which is responsible for overseeing the region's transport services, said the population of the area had grown, leading to more people travelling and more commercial activity. The new stations would make journey times quicker, it added.

Fares have not yet been confirmed by West Midlands Railway (WMR^» (West Midlands Railway - website)) but the new stations fall under Zone 3 on their fare map.

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Phased works have commenced to create station access at Pineapple Road, with its junction with Cartland Road closed until mid-November. Signed diversions are in place for local traffic.

Highway works at Moseley Village station are taking place at the junction of St. Mary's Row and Oxford Road until mid-December, with temporary signals allowing only a single lane of traffic.

At Kings Heath station, finishing works will take place on the footpath opposite the station access on Alcester Road from 27 October to 1 November. A pedestrian footbridge was installed at the station in June.

Contractor VolkerFitzpatrick said the new stations would each have two platforms suitable for six-car trains.

Pedestrian footbridges, stairs and lifts, ticket machines and information systems and passenger help points would also be available.

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Work finishes on five new railway stations

Construction work has finished on five new railway stations in the West Midlands.

Kings Heath, Moseley and Pineapple Road stations on the Camp Hill line in Birmingham, along with stations at Willenhall and Darlaston in Walsall, are due to open in early 2026.

They were originally scheduled to have been finished and in operation in 2024, but were hit with delays and soaring costs.

Once opened, it will mean the return of passengers to the Camp Hill line for the first time since the early 1940s and the end of a 60-year wait for services at Willenhall and Darlaston.

Richard Parker, mayor of the West Midlands, recently handed control of the stations over to West Midlands Railway after the work was completed. He said the services would improve connectivity and take congestion off the roads. "They will help bring increased footfall to the places around it and they will help drive economic growth," he added.

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The new Pineapple Road station, pictured during construction, will open next year

The Labour mayor said driver training, testing and signalling work would take place over the next few weeks to ensure the stations were ready for passengers in the new year.

The stations have been delivered in partnership with the Department for Transport, West Midlands Railway, Network Rail, Birmingham City Council and Walsall Council.

Denise Wetton, Network Rail's central route director, said: "These five new stations are great additions to the West Midlands rail network, better connecting people and communities to new journeys and opportunities."

Our writer visits five long-unused stops near Birmingham which are now gearing up for a grand reprieve

On a visit to Birmingham and the Black Country last weekend, there was one word I heard more than any other: excitement.

It may have been grey, drizzly and cold, but there was a warmth and buzz about the place that I hadn’t expected.

And the cause? The imminent reopening of not one, not two – but five train stations, three in the south of the city and two in the Black Country along the stretch of track heading north east to Wolverhampton.
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Train testing under way on new Birmingham rail line

Final testing is being carried out at five new railway stations in the West Midlands before they open their ticket barriers to passengers.

Stations at Willenhall and Darlaston in the Black Country will open on Thursday 19 March.

And three Birmingham stations - at Moseley, Kings Heath and Pineapple Road - will open on Tuesday 7 April as the Camp Hill Line is brought back to life.

It was closed in 1941 during World War Two, because of a shortage of coal, and never reopened.

On Monday, trains were travelling between Birmingham New Street and Kings Norton via the three new Birmingham stations as work is completed at the locations.

Just wondering if the Cross country services will still go via Camp hill or straight down the main line from Birmingham New street.

New railway stations open to the public

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Journeys to Birmingham New Street will take about 12 minutes from Moseley Village

Three new railway stations have opened to the public in Birmingham as part of a £185m project to reinstate links to the city centre.

Camp Hill Line stations Moseley Village, Kings Heath and Pineapple Road opened on Tuesday, allowing locals access to neighbourhood services for the first time since World War Two.

Trains will run twice an hour along the route between the city centre and Kings Norton. Two others opened on a line to Wolverhampton last month.

Estimated journey times to New Street are expected to be about 12 minutes from Moseley Village, 15 minutes from Kings Heath and 17 minutes from Pineapple Road.

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