Hamstead railway station
Hamstead railway station serves the Hamstead, Great Barr and Handsworth Wood areas of Birmingham, England. It is located at the junction of Rocky Lane and Old Walsall Road, Hamstead, at Birmingham's border with the borough of Sandwell.Photo: Peter Whatley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Hamstead, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
- Also known as: “Great Barr railway station”, “Great Barr Railway Station”, “Great Barr station”, “Hamstead and Great Barr railway station”, “Hamstead and Great Barr station”, “Hamstead Railway Station”, “Hamstead station”, and “HSD”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Perry Hall Park and St Paul’s Church.
Perry Hall Park
Park
Photo: Pigsonthewing, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Perry Hall Park or Perry Hall Country Park, and previously Perry Hall Playing Fields, is a park in Perry Barr, Birmingham, England, at grid reference SP059918. Perry Hall Park is situated 1 mile southeast of Hamstead railway station.
St Paul’s Church
Church
Photo: Andy Mabbett, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Paul's Church, Hamstead is a Grade II listed Church of England parish church in Birmingham, England. St Paul’s Church is situated 4,000 feet north of Hamstead railway station.
Birmingham Crematorium
Garden
Photo: Pigsonthewing, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Birmingham Crematorium is a crematorium in the Perry Barr district of Birmingham, England, designed by Frank Osborne and opened in 1903. A columbarium was added in 1928. The crematorium is now owned and operated by Dignity plc. Birmingham Crematorium is situated 1 mile east of Hamstead railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hamstead and Tower Hill.
Hamstead
Suburb
Photo: William Ellis (engraver), Public domain.
Hamstead is an area straddling the border of Birmingham and Sandwell, England, between Handsworth Wood and Great Barr, and adjacent to the Sandwell Valley area of West Bromwich.
Tower Hill
Neighborhood
Tower Hill is an area of Great Barr, Birmingham, England. It is situated on the western side of the main A34 road that links Birmingham with Walsall, and straddles the Tame Valley Canal.
Perry Beeches
Suburb
Perry Beeches is an area of Great Barr, Birmingham, England, within the parliamentary constituency of Birmingham Perry Barr. It was formerly part of the estate of Perry Hall, and from 1894 until 1928 came under the auspices of Perry Barr Urban District, in Staffordshire.
Hamstead railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.531° or 52° 31′ 52″ northLongitude
-1.92887° or 1° 55′ 44″ westElevation
338 feet (103 metres)Operator
West Midlands Trains (West Midlands Railway)Network
National RailAbbreviation
“HSD”Open location code
9C4WG3JC+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 7285282240OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesGeoNames ID
6952732Wikidata ID
Q2382124
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Hamstead railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Hamstead”
- Dutch: “Station Hamstead”
- French: “gare de Hamstead”
- French: “Hamstead”
- Urdu: “ہیمسٹیڈ ریلوے اسٹیشن”
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