Camp Hill line

The Camp Hill line is a railway line in Birmingham between Kings Norton and Birmingham New Street. Its official ELR designation is the St Andrews Junction to Kings Norton line, as the line piggybacks the station approach of the Rugby–Birmingham–Stafford line (accessed via St Andrews Junction and Grand Junction) to enter Birmingham New Street.

The line was once the terminal approach of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway to Curzon Street before it was incorporated into the Midland Railway and subsequently rerouted to the new Birmingham New Street terminus. The expansion of the Birmingham West Suburban Railway (and the concurrent conversion of New Street into a through station) resulted in its usurping of the line as the service's primary route. From this point the name ‘Camp Hill line’ was used, named after its original terminus.

Local passenger services on the line ended in the 1940s and the intermediate stations on the line were closed. Since then it has been used primarily by freight trains and some longer-distance passenger trains only.

It was hoped to resume local services on the route by the end of 2024 after a break of nearly 84 years, however a July 2024 article in Rail magazine suggested a further delay, and stated that the line would be reopening in autumn 2025. Expansion of these services via new chords connecting the line to Birmingham Moor Street were still in the early planning stage at the end of 2024.