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.



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.



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) but the new stations fall under Zone 3 on their fare map.



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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