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VolkerFitzpatrick wins another brief for Birmingham railway stations

The contractor leading the revamp of the city's university station has won a tender for trio of new sites on Camp Hill line

CGI of plans for a new railway station in Hazelwell(Image: TfWM planning application)

The contractor currently putting the finishing touches to the new-look University of Birmingham station has won the tender to build three more in the city.

VolkerFitzpatrick has been appointed by Transport for West Midlands to construct the stations in Kings Heath, Moseley and Hazelwell on the Camp Hill line south of Birmingham city centre.

The Hertfordshire-based contractor has been carrying out the revamp of the university station in Edgbaston which is due to be completed ahead of this summer's Commonwealth Games when the campus plays host to the hockey and squash events.

The trio of new sites are part of the £61 million scheme to bring new passenger services to the three suburbs on the Camp Hill line which is now used mainly for freight and through passenger services.

Design work on the statons is due to start later this spring with construction itself expected to commence in November ahead of completion in late 2023.

Services will run twice per hour into New Street station but transport chiefs hope to increase this dramatically by sending the route into Moor Street station instead as part of the so-called 'Bordesley Chords' scheme although that could still be several years away.

West Midlands Combined Authority is providing £36 million towards the cost of the new stations with a further £20 million coming from the Department for Transport and the remaining £5 million from Birmingham City Council's Clean Air Zone.