Maxstoke railway station

Maxstoke
Maxstoke station platform April 2015
General information
Other namesColeshill
LocationEngland
Coordinates52°29′38″N 1°41′18″W / 52.4940°N 1.6884°W / 52.4940; -1.6884
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyBirmingham and Derby Junction Railway
Pre-groupingMidland Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1839Station opens as Coleshill
1 January 1917Closed to passenger traffic
1923Renamed Maxstoke
30 April 1939Station closes
Coleshill (later Maxstoke) railway station from The Sketch 28 August 1907

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.

Lines around Whitacre Junction