Foleshill railway station

Coordinates: 52°26′00″N 1°30′18″W / 52.4332°N 1.5049°W

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Foleshill

General information

Location

Lockhurst Lane, Holbrooks, Coventry
England

Coordinates

52°26′00″N 1°30′18″W / 52.4332°N 1.5049°W

Grid reference

SP337817

Platforms

Other information

Status

Disused

History

Pre-grouping

London and North Western Railway

Post-grouping

London, Midland and Scottish Railway

Key dates

2 September 1850

Opened

18 January 1965

Closed

Location

Foleshill railway station was a railway station in Foleshill, Coventry, England, built by the London and North Western Railway on the Coventry to Nuneaton Line. The railway station was located in the northern part of Coventry, approximately 3 miles from the city centre, on the northern end of Lockhurst Lane in Holbrooks.

There are a few remnants of the old station, all that can be seen is the remains of one of the platforms and the railway line is still in use by both goods and passenger trains. The station was located directly to the north of the Lockhurst Lane road bridge across the railway. The station also had a signal box located on the down line just to the south of the station immediately before the road bridge, right at the foot of the pedestrian stairs off Lockhurst Lane down to Holbrooks Lane.

Labour Members of Warwickshire County Council have raised the prospect of the station reopening.^[1]

A bid was made to the Restoring Your Railway Fund in March 2020 for funding for a feasibility study into reopening the station. The bid was not successful.^[2]

In 2023, Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) and the West Midlands Rail Executive (WMRE) put forward plans to reopen the station.^[3]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Daimler Halt Line open, station closed		London and North Western Railway Coventry to Nuneaton Line		Longford and Exhall Line open, station closed

References

^ Rail Issue 891 p.26
^ Restoring Your Railway: Bids Received Retrieved 27 December 2020
^ "Coventry could get two new railway stations as new plans get on track". Coventry Live. 28 February 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.

Railway stations in the West Midlands county

Open stations

Birmingham	Acocks Green Adderley Park Aston Blake Street Bordesley Bournville Butlers Lane Chester Road Duddeston Erdington Five Ways Four Oaks Gravelly Hill Hall Green Hamstead Jewellery Quarter Kings Norton Lea Hall Longbridge Moor Street New Street Northfield Perry Barr Selly Oak Small Heath Snow Hill Spring Road Stechford Sutton Coldfield Tyseley University Witton Wylde Green Yardley Wood
Coventry	Canley Coventry Coventry Arena Tile Hill
Dudley	Coseley Lye Stourbridge Junction Stourbridge Town
Sandwell	Bescot Stadium Cradley Heath Dudley Port Langley Green Old Hill Rowley Regis Sandwell & Dudley Smethwick Galton Bridge Smethwick Rolfe Street Tame Bridge Parkway The Hawthorns Tipton
Solihull	Berkswell Birmingham International Dorridge Earlswood Hampton-in-Arden Marston Green Olton Shirley Solihull Whitlocks End Widney Manor
Walsall	Bloxwich Bloxwich North Walsall
Wolverhampton	Wolverhampton
Outside West Midlands county, but within the Transport for West Midlands area	Wythall

Disused

Birmingham	Bromford Bridge Camp Hill Castle Bromwich Central Goods Church Road Curzon Street Granville Street Hagley Road Handsworth & Smethwick Handsworth Wood Harborne Hazelwell Hockley Icknield Port Road Kings Heath Lawley Street Lifford Longbridge (1915–1964) Monument Lane Moseley Penns Rotton Park Road Rubery Saltley Soho & Winson Green Soho Road Somerset Road Sutton Park Sutton Coldfield Town Winson Green
Coventry	Coundon Road Daimler Halt Foleshill Longford & Exhall
Dudley	Baptist End Blowers Green Brettell Lane Brierley Hill Brockmoor Halt Bromley Halt Darby End Dudley Gornal Halt Halesowen Harts Hill Old Hill High Street Pensnett Halt Round Oak Windmill End
Sandwell	Albion Great Bridge North Great Bridge South Newton Road Oldbury Princes End & Coseley Rood End Smethwick West Soho Spon Lane Swan Village Tipton Five Ways Wednesbury Central Wednesbury Town West Bromwich
Walsall	Aldridge Bentley Brownhills Brownhills Watling Street Darlaston Darlaston James Bridge North Walsall Pelsall Pleck Rushall Short Heath Streetly Walsall Wood Willenhall Bilston Street Willenhall Stafford Street Wood Green
Wolverhampton	Bilston Central Bilston West Bradley and Moxley Bushbury Compton Halt Daisy Bank Dunstall Park Ettingshall Road Heath Town Monmore Green Portobello Priestfield Stafford Road Tettenhall Wednesfield Heath for Wolverhampton Wednesfield Wolverhampton Low Level Wolverhampton Temporary

Heritage
Tyseley, Warwick Road

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