History
The current Kings Norton station is the second station to be built in the Kings Norton area. The original Lifford railway station (the first of three stations to bear the Lifford name) was first built on what is now the Camp Hill Line ).
Opening in 1849, Kings Norton was developed as part of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway's line to Curzon Street via the Camp Hill Line. It was greatly extended in 1892 with the extension of the Midland Railway's Birmingham West Suburban Railway, adding a third platform when the line was quadruple tracked south to the junction with the Halesowen Joint Railway. This enabled the construction of a large coal and goods yard with sidings for the adjacent Triplex factory. In the 1930s, a fourth platform was added to provide an overflow facility for Birmingham New Street, allowing passenger trains going from Derby to Bristol to avoid central Birmingham. At the same time, suburban traffic was reduced with the closure of the stations on the Camp Hill Line in 1930.
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