Autumn 2025 opening as Camp Hill Line stations hit by further delays

The opening of three new stations on Birmingham’s Camp Hill Line has been delayed again, following what has been described as “ongoing challenges” building around a live railway line.

The new stations at Kings Heath, Moseley Village, and Pineapple Road (Stirchley) were due to open in December this year, but the opening date has now been put back until autumn 2025.

It is the second time the project has been formally delayed. In June last year, Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) announced an 18-month delay, blaming an unstable wall at the Pineapple Road site and a colony of badgers needing to be moved at Moseley Village.

The project is designed to restore passenger services on the line, after a gap of more than 80 years. Stations at all three sites closed in 1941. The line is currently used by freight trains and some CrossCountry services.

News of further delays to the project prompted a row between the region’s new Labour Mayor Richard Parker and former incumbent Andy Street, over funding of transport infrastructure.

Parker said: “I am now very concerned about a number of significant issues that have been brought to my attention regarding the funding, delivery and delay of major transport projects in the region.

He added that “commitments and promises” had been previously made about projects “without the resources to fund and sustain them”.

In a statement, Street said: “I’m really saddened and disappointed to see political game-playing over an issue so critical to the success of the West Midlands and its citizens.

“When I left office, I bequeathed to the new Mayor billions of pounds in devolved transport funding, with an incredible pipeline of funded projects.”