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Route Plans 2010 Route Plan M West Midlands & Chilterns Moving ahead Planning tomorrow’s railways Our railways play a vital role in building Britain’s future Planning tomorrow’s railways Our £500 million investment in King’s Cross station will transform the experience of passengers using the station. We are delivering hundreds of projects across the network to build a bigger, better railway for passengers, freight and the whole of Britain. Route Plan M West Midlands & Chilterns Route Plan M West Midlands & Chilterns Route I Wichnor Jn Route N Route N Lichfield High Level Goods Loop Jn 98 L STAFFORD RUGELEY TRENT VALLEY RUGELEY Lichfield POWER STATION Trent Rugeley North Jn Trent Valley 99 Valley Jn No. 1 Jn LICHFIELD TRENT VALLEY Route L RUGELEY TOWN SHREWSBURY 18 P G Donnington Hednesford Disused Trackbed Lichfield City Severn Intermodal P TAMWORTH Terminal Bridge Jn P R D Cannock Anglesea Sidings Shenstone 10 99 TELFORD (Network Changed Out of Use) Wilnecote Wellington 99 CENTRAL Penkridge Blake Street Birch Landywood Coppice 07 Oakengates Madeley Jn Butlers Lane Kingsbury English Bloxwich North 17 Kingsbury Jn Oil Terminal Bridge Jn Shifnal M Four Oaks Kingsbury EMR 99 AA Bloxwich N 99 AV Cosford 20 IRONBRIDGE O POWER Albrighton Bushbury Sutton Coldfield HAMS STATION Jn Water HALL Daw Mill Wylde Green EURO Codsall Ryecroft Jn Orton TERMINAL 99 colliery AU AO D WALSALL Park Lane Jn Abbey Bilbrook B Chester Road Jns Whitacre Jn Nuneaton Foregate G L Jns Jn AC Oxley Jn 13 Erdington Castle Bromwich Jn Abbey Jn Route I Pleck Bescot O Water Coleshill M 22 AL Wolverhampton North Jn Jn Newton Castle Bromwich Jaguar NUNEATON W Portobello Jn Bescot Gravelly Hill F Parkway Jn Stadium Jn Hamstead Perry Barr Orton AI G WOLVERHAMPTON C Washwood Heath J L Crane Street Jn Wolverhampton Darlaston Tame Perry Barr Aston Jns 99 Steel Terminal Bescot Witton ASTON Jn Yard Bridge Parkway Jns Coseley 99 H Route N Jewellery 99 The Hawthorns Quarter Duddeston 13 Murco Tipton Duddeston Petroleum Handsworth Sidings Lawley Street Saltley EMR SMETHWICK Sidings B 99 AH Dudley Port A AE Freightliner Stechford North Jn 24 Terminal GALTON Smethwick Soho BIRMINGHAM Landor Street F BRIDGE AO 06 Rolfe Street Jns 1 SNOW HILL 99 Jn Stechford A Y Mothballed Sandwell Galton Jn C Proof Grand Railway H AS BIRMINGHAM House Adderley Park & Dudley Smethwick Jn Jn St Andrews Lea Hall NEW STREET Jn Jn Langley Green Bedworth Route N Marston Green 14 E AF 23 Round Oak Rowley Regis AG D Steel Terminal Five Ways BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM 05 Pensnett (Closed) Old Hill AM MOOR STREET INTERNATIONAL 99 Bordesley Pro Logis 99 Bordesley Park STOURBRIDGE Cradley Heath University Jns Hampton-in-Arden Small Heath TOWN 25 Lye 08 99 Berkswell 21 Bordesley STVA AW K STOURBRIDGE Stourbridge O Selly Oak TYSELEY V North Jn and Aggregates Tile Hill JUNCTION Tyseley South Jn Route L Canley P Bourneville Spring Road Acocks Green Coventry North Jn RUGBY Olton AO W C COVENTRY Long Buckby Hagley Hall Green NORTHAMPTON Lifford Solihull Coventry South Jn AL Trent Valley Jn Route N Jns Fenny Stratford Flyover Jn D Yardley Wood Widney Manor Denbigh Hall South. Jn Kings 12 Kings AI Bletchley Jn Norton Norton Jns Dorridge O Shirley E BLETCHLEY 98 Blakedown C Lapworth P non operational Northfield O Whitlocks End 16 Warwick Flyover Jn Longbridge Hatton Jns Hatton Z LEIGHTON BUZZARD Kidderminster Plant 99 Jn AR Leamington Spa Jn Claydon L.N.E. Jn P N network changed Longbridge Wythall Warwick KIDDERMINSTER out-of-use I S LEAMINGTON P 98 Parkway P Barnt Green AW Earlswood AD Banbury SPA Route N Severn Valley 16 16 Barnt Green Jn 11 Calvert Railway The Lakes Claverdon Aylesbury Vale Parkway Hartlebury K 09 Kings Sutton 99 Waste Facility F P 2 Aynho Jn AYLESBURY Bromsgrove Alvechurch Wood End I Bicester Bearley North Stoke Mandeville AM U 19 Heyford J Danzey 04 03 Wendover P 15 Tackley Haddenham & O Stoke Henley-in-Arden Thame Little Kimble Great Missenden REDDITCH T DROITWICH SPA Works Wolvercot Jn Parkway R Jn Wootton Wawen Bearley Jn BICESTER AMERSHAM TOWN Monks Risborough WORCESTER FOREGATE STREET Wilmcote Oxford Chalfont & Latimer AI C North Jn Chinnor & Princes K Worcester Risborough Railway PRINCES P Henwick Tunnel Jn STRATFORD-UPON-AVON RISBOROUGH Chorleywood Jn Shrub Hill Jn WATFORD I Saunderton Route J Rickmansworth O Worcester Norton OXFORD AB High Wycombe 01 Jn Great Shrub Hill Route K Q Beaconsfield London Underground Ledbury Colwall Malvern Route J Infrastructure Key Seer Green Moor Park Malvern Link Primary P Gerrards Cross Shelwick Jn Secondary HARROW-ON-THE-HILL 02 Rural Denham Golf Club Denham Northolt Waste Neasden HEREFORD K O P London & SE Commuter TransferTerminal Sudbury & South Freight only West Ruislip 99 Harrow Road Jn Route E Freight Closed South Ruislip Northolt Sudbury Wembley AP The line shading indicates Northolt Jn Park Hill Stadium strategic route sections Harrow which are numbered on the map I Route L S LONDON MARYLEBONE Key to route diagrams 99 13 KEY Junction Station name Station Station STATION Station name name name name 02 Junction KEY STATION Junction name A A B name 1 10 04 01 KEY STATION KEY STATION Capacity and operational constraints Track descriptions A Location: capacity or operational constraint The colour of the line denotes the route classification Issues on the route 1 Primary Location: issue on the route London and South East commuter Secondary Key planned projects A Rural Location: planned project on the route Freight only Strategic route sections 01 The line shading indicates strategic route sections Listed in the appendix of the route plan which are numbered on the map The width of the line denotes the number of tracks Other symbols Multiple track Key station location Double track KEY STATION Key station on this route Single track KEY STATION Key station on another route Other station location Other lines are shown as follows: Station name Other station on this route Line on other route Junction name Junction / other landmark Non Network Rail infrastructure Non operational line 5 Section 1: Today’s railway Today’s route The route is bounded to the east and north by the Route context WCML, the west by Shrewsbury and Hereford and The route consists of the West Midlands area and the south and west by Oxford, Worcester and the Chiltern main line from Birmingham to London Buckinghamshire. The principal elements of the Marylebone. The route covers a large area and West Midlands and Chilterns route are described comprises a number of key corridors within the below, with the relevant Strategic Route Section national rail network. It also encompasses the wider shown in brackets: West Midlands region including Warwickshire, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Worcester, • WCML, including the Birmingham loop (Rugby – Solihull and Telford & Wrekin Council areas. The Coventry – Birmingham New Street – Chilterns line passes through Oxfordshire, Wolverhampton, rejoining the WCML at Stafford) Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire and Greater (M.05, M.06, M.07, M.11) and the Stechford to London. Bushbury Junction line (M.13) (the Grand Junction which provides vital diversionary The West Midlands area acts as a hub at the centre capability for both the WCML Trent Valley route of the national rail network, with intercity, inter-urban and the Birmingham loop); and suburban rail services all passing through the • intercity and interurban routes, which include the three central Birmingham stations. Birmingham radial routes from Birmingham to Cheltenham New Street station is a primary interchange station (M.15), Derby (M.10), Oxford (M.11), Leicester for many destinations across the network, with the (M.22) and Worcester/Hereford (M.09), plus the majority of local services supported by the route from Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury (M.20); Integrated Transport Authority (Centro). • West Midlands local routes, which form two main networks, centred on Birmingham’s New Street The Chiltern line serves the long distance and and Snow Hill stations (M.08, M.12, M.14, M.16, commuter passenger markets, running half-hourly M.17, M.18, M.19, M.23 and M.25); services from London Marylebone to both • London Marylebone to Birmingham Snow Hill via Birmingham Moor Street and Snow Hill. Services Princes Risborough and Bicester North (M.01) from Marylebone diverge at Neasden South • London Marylebone to Aylesbury Vale Parkway Junction to Banbury and to Aylesbury. The Chiltern via Amersham (M.02, M.03 and M.99), where the line is also used as a strategic diversionary route for passenger service currently terminates, and then the WCML, with the route accommodating both on to Claydon LNE Junction. This branch runs passenger and freight services during West Coast parallel to the LUL Metropolitan and Jubilee Lines blockades. as far as Amersham (terminus) • a single line branch links Princes Risborough and There are a significant number of freight terminals Aylesbury (M.04) dotted around the West Midlands area e.g. • freight routes, including heavily used through Donnington, Kingsbury, Lawley Street and Calvert. routes carrying long distance traffic (e.g. Sutton The route is vital for many long distance freight Park Line, St. Andrews Junction to Landor Street) flows, including traffic to and from the WCML and and a number of branch lines serving private along the Thames Valley corridor, (via Oxford) sidings and terminals on the route (e.g. Prologis which forms part of the strategic freight route for Park (Coventry), Hams Hall, Birch Coppice, container traffic from Southampton which joins the Round Oak) (M.24, M.99 and M.98). There are WCML in the West Midlands. There are significant also two freight branches from Bicester Town to coal, steel and automotive flows, which are Claydon LNE Junction and Aylesbury to Claydon predominately aligned on the axis from Bristol and LNE Junction.