Washwood Heath Yard

Washwood Heath Yard
	66227 passing Washwood Heath - rows of KSA wagons are shown in the yard.
Location
Location	Washwood Heath, Birmingham, England
Coordinates	52°30′14″N 1°50′29″W / 52.5038°N 1.8415°W
OS grid	SP108895
Characteristics
Owner	Network Rail
Operator	DB Cargo UK
Type	Freight
Routes served	Sutton Park Line (to Bescot); Camp Hill Line (to the south); Birmingham to Peterborough Line (to the east); Chiltern Main Line (to the south); Cross Country Route (to Derby);
History
Opened	1900
Closed	1982 (as a hump yard); 2008 as a flat-shunted yard/sidings
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland Scottish
BR region	London Midland

Washwood Heath Yard was a marshalling yard, and later sidings, to the east of Birmingham, in the West Midlands, England. The site was first host to sidings in the late 1870s, which were upgraded to a hump marshalling yard by 1900 which survived until the early 1980s. Thereafter, the site was flat shunted, but moreover used as a layover yard, rather than used for the transfer or interchange of wagons between trains. It was run-down and closed in late 2008 due to the loss of most of the automotive traffic that it was latterly used for. The lines were removed by 2020.