Maxstoke
Maxstoke station platform April 2015
General information
Other names	Coleshill
Location	England
Coordinates	52°29′38″N 1°41′18″W / 52.4940°N 1.6884°W / 52.4940; -1.6884
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1839	Station opens as Coleshill
1 January 1917	Closed to passenger traffic
1923	Renamed Maxstoke
30 April 1939	Station closes

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.

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.^[1]

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

Freight services continued until 30 April 1939.^[2] 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.^{[citation needed]}

• P. Gibson ca. 1859, ca. 1866^[3]
• Frederick Freeman
• William Barber ca. 1868
• F. Turner until 1873^[4]
• F. Swinnerton 1873 - 1877^[4]
• William Reynolds 1877^[4] - 1887^[5] (formerly station master at Hellifield)
• Charles Wells 1887^[5] - 1908^[6]
• William L. Leary 1908^[6] - ca. 1912

• 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.

• This station's entry on Warwickshirerailways.com
• Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Coleshill station

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