title: Maxstoke railway station
text: # Maxstoke railway station
  
  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.
  
  ## History
  
  When the BD&JR built its alternative route in Lawley Street in 1842, the line, known as the Stonebridge Railway, lost its importance and the passenger service finished in 1917.
  
  It was renamed Maxstoke in 1923 (while Forge Mills became Coleshill)
  
  Freight services continued until 30 April 1939. The track was removed soon after and the station was demolished.
  
  On 24 February 2014, a local volunteer from Birmingham, with the full permission of a local farmer, began uncovering the platform fascia and brickwork.
  
  ## Stationmasters
  
  * P. Gibson ca. 1859, ca. 1866
  * Frederick Freeman
  * William Barber ca. 1868
  * F. Turner until 1873
  * F. Swinnerton 1873 - 1877
  * William Reynolds 1877 - 1887 (formerly station master at Hellifield)
  * Charles Wells 1887 - 1908
  * William L. Leary 1908 - ca. 1912
  