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Pineapple Road
Hazelwell station buildings looking upline to Birmingham, viewed from below Cartland Road bridge c.1907
General information
Location	Stirchley, Birmingham England
Coordinates	52°25′48″N 1°54′29″W / 52.4299°N 1.9080°W / 52.4299; -1.9080
Grid reference	SP063813
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Under construction
Station code	PIR
History
Original company	Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 January 1903	Opened
27 January 1941	Closed
2024	Scheduled to reopen
Location

Pineapple Road railway station is a railway station under construction in Stirchley, Birmingham. It was first opened in 1903 and closed in 1941.

History

Construction of the new station started in 1902 on the former B&GR mainline (now the Camp Hill line) on the border of Hazelwell, Stirchley, and Kings Heath, situated between the existing Kings Heath and Lifford stations. The station cost £20,000 (equivalent to £2,712,700 in 2023) to build and was opened on 1 January 1903 as Hazelwell station. It was built to serve the Priory Estate which comprised 150 acres (61 ha).

Originally the station sat at a level crossing with a footbridge for pedestrians. In 1928, Herbert H. Humphries, Birmingham City Council City Engineer and Surveyor, invited tenders for the construction of the Cartland Road bridge over the railway at Hazelwell.

The station closed on 27 January 1941, when passenger services were withdrawn from the line due to "wartime economy measures", and was not reopened. The line remained open for freight and some longer distance passenger services.

The station buildings were the home of Birmingham Model Railway Club from 1963 until 1980.

Reopening

In 2019, the project to re-open the stations at Moseley, Kings Heath, and Hazelwell received £15m in Government funding, with construction due to start in 2020 and aimed for completion in time for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. In March 2021 it was announced that funding had been found for the project. The reopening of the Camp Hill line has been hit by delays and the West Midlands Combined Authority is now aiming to reopen the line for passenger use by the end of 2024. Further delays were announced and the station is now earmarked for opening summer or August 2025.

After a public vote, it was announced that the reopened station would be called Pineapple Road.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
	Future services
Kings Norton		West Midlands RailwayCamp Hill line		Kings Heath
	Disused railways
Lifford		Midland Railway Camp Hill line		Kings Heath

References

1. ^ Doherty, Andrew. "Hazelwell Station". Rail Around Birmingham & the West Midlands. Retrieved 17 August 2009.
2. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
3. "West Midlands Miscellany". Worcestershire Chronicle. England. 3 January 1903. Retrieved 28 March 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
4. "City of Birmingham. To Bridge Contractors". Birmingham Daily Gazette. England. 31 May 1928. Retrieved 28 March 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
5. "Five Birmingham Station to Close". Coventry Evening Telegraph. England. 22 January 1941. Retrieved 28 March 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
6. "Birmingham railway station project receives £15 million funding". BBC. 1 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
7. "Full steam ahead for Camp Hill line to reopen as final budget approved". West Midlands Combined Authority. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
8. "Camp Hill: Further delays to south Birmingham railway line". BBC News. 27 June 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
9. "Pineapple Road to be one of Birmingham's new railway stations".

• Disused railway stations in Birmingham, West Midlands
• Former Midland Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1903
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1941
• Proposed railway stations in England