Brownhills West | |||||
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| Station on heritage railway | |||||
 Brownhills West railway station | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Chasewater, near Brownhills, Staffordshire England | ||||
| Coordinates | 52°39′46.00″N1°57′11.00″W / 52.6627778°N 1.9530556°W | ||||
| Grid reference | SK032072 | ||||
| Managed by | Chasewater Railway | ||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||
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Brownhills West railway station is a heritage railway station on the Chasewater Railway in Staffordshire. It is the western terminus of the Chasewater Railway.[ citation needed ] The present facilities were constructed in the early 2000s after the original station, at a different location, stood in the way of the M6 Toll motorway. [1]
Development of the railway had been inhibited by the M6 plans since 1980. The cost of the new facilities at Brownhills West were met with £500,000 from the motorway developers, £412,000 from the European Union mainly for the museum building, and a smaller amount from Lichfield District Council. The new route of the railway provided a good view of a new lake and park, another spinoff of the M6 development. The lake had previously been a disused clay pit used to dump coal-mining waste. [1]
The station buildings house Chasewater Railway Museum.
