It wasn't Beeching who closed the Camp Hill line. It was an incident called World War II which closed the line in 1941 and it never reopened.
Just read the response of the Moseley Society/Moseley Forum to the planning application. Looks set to be a right ding-dong about it. Official application wants a junction with traffic lights controlling Wake Green Rd/Oxford Rd/station entrance area. Moseley Society/Moseley Forum prefere a new traffic island.
Traffic island might be visually more attractive but I suspect would cause problems at peak time. Traffic lights might be ugly but might keep traffic flowing better.
As there is no parking at the station and as it is intended to encourage people to use public transport does it really need a complex road junction at all?
Probably they think that Camp Hill is too close to the city centre to be worth while bearing in mind that the train journey from New Street does take a roundabout route before it gets to Camp Hill. The eventual plan is to build two new curves in Bordesley to bring the trains into Moor Street but that in much further into the future and the plan to reopen the line is just intended to be a an interim measure.https://www.newcivilengineer.com/la...e-new-birmingham-railway-stations-10-12-2021/
Above is the link to the article shown. It does have more detail than the image - they reckon to start sometime next year. Odd that they should keep the name "Camp Hill line" and not try to resurrect Camp Hill station.
Well the "new" Camp Hill is next to Hazelwell Station!https://www.newcivilengineer.com/la...e-new-birmingham-railway-stations-10-12-2021/
Above is the link to the article shown. It does have more detail than the image - they reckon to start sometime next year. Odd that they should keep the name "Camp Hill line" and not try to resurrect Camp Hill station.
True, although there is some political pressure to put in a Balsall Heath station. Resurrecting Camp Hill would be a lot cheaper and would be more accessible. The question was, without the station, why keep the name?"Odd that they should keep the name "Camp Hill line" and not try to resurrect Camp Hill station."
The station site area is hardly a large catchment for the line, and scheduling the extra stop on top of building cost would hardly be good value.
looked a lovely little station in 1908Still planned. In Birmingham Mail this week
New Moseley station - plans, pictures and everything we know so far
Communities in Moseley, Stirchley and Kings Heath have been waiting for over a decade - and now it seems the reopening of the Camp Hill line is finally happeningwww.google.co.uk