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Hampton-in-Arden Station - A Solihull & West Midlands Gem!

Hampton-in-Arden Station is on the West Coast Mainline between Birmingham International and Coventry. It originally opened in 1884. Two trains per hour in each direction.

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Berkswell Station - A Solihull & West Midlands Gem!

Berkswell Station is on the West Coast Mainline between Birmingham International and Coventry. A station originally opened here in 1844. It serves the villages of Balsall Common and Berkswell.

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Tile Hill Station - A Coventry & West Midlands Gem!

Tile Hill Station is in the suburbs of Coventry, on the West Coast Mainline. Originally opened in 1850. A level crossing was removed in 2004-05 and replaced by a bridge.

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Canley Station - A Coventry & West Midlands Gem!

Canley Station is a small railway station outside of Coventry on the West Coast Mainline. It opened in 1940 as Canley Halt. There used to be a level crossing here that was removed in 2004.

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Coseley Station - A Dudley & West Midlands Gem!

Coseley Station is in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the Coseley area. The present station opened in 1902. It's between Wolverhampton and Tipton.

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Tame Bridge Parkway Station - A Sandwell & West Midlands Gem!

Tame Bridge Parkway Station is on the Walsall line in Sandwell, close to the Tame Valley Canal, River Tame and M6 motorways. It was opened in 1990.

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Marston Green Station - A Solihull & West Midlands Gem!

Marston Green Station is in Solihull, close to the Sheldon Country Park and Birmingham Airport. On the West Coast Mainline. It originally opened back in 1838.

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Earlswood Station - A Solihull & West Midlands Gem!

Earlswood Station is on the Solihull, West Midlands / Stratford-on-Avon,Warwickshire border. It opened in 1908. Today the station is close to Earlswood Garden & Landscape Centre.

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Dorridge Station - A Solihull & West Midlands Gem!

Dorridge Station originally opened back in 1852 by the GWR. Today it's one of the stops on the Chiltern Mainline, and the terminus of local service run by West Midlands Railway.

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Wythall Station - A West Midlands Gem!

Wythall Station is near the village of Wythall in Worcestershire (Bromsgrove district), part of the Shakespeare Line. Trains here are hourly. It's between Whitlocks End and Earlswood.

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Solihull Station - A Solihull & West Midlands Gem!

Solihull Station is on the Chiltern Mainline between Birmingham Snow Hill and London Marylebone. Opened originally in 1852 by the GWR, had two island platforms now reduced to one.

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Widney Manor Station - A Solihull & West Midlands Gem!

Widney Manor Station is on the Chiltern Mainline between Solihull and Dorridge, the last station before crossing the M42 motorway. It opened back in 1899.

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Olton Station - A Solihull & West Midlands Gem!

Olton Station is on the Chiltern Mainline between Birmingham and Solihull. It opened in 1869. There is now two platforms for stopping services. Saxon horse sculpture outside the station.

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Whitlocks End Station - A Solihull and West Midlands Gem!

Whitlocks End Station has been the southern terminus for the Shakespeare Line for trains that don't go beyond to Stratford-upon-Avon since 2011.

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Shirley Station - A Solihull & West Midlands Gem!

Shirley Station opened on what is now the Shakespeare Line in 1908. It used to be the terminus for trains not going further to Stratford-upon-Avon until 2010. 

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Terpischore statue fountain at Bournville

A bronze statue called Terpischore by William Bloye, dating to 1932. Near the Bournville Cricket Ground and the Cadbury chocolate factory in Bournville, Birmingham.

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Cadbury Club Lodge - A Birmingham & West Midlands Gem!

A brown brick lodge built in 1895 by A. P. Walker. Located on Bournville Lane in Bournville, Birmingham. The Cadbury Club was located behind (until it was destroyed by a fire and demolished).

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No 1 Lodge at Cadbury - A Birmingham & West Midlands Gem!

The building known as No 1 Lodge is located on Bournville Lane in Bournville and is part of the Cadbury chocolate factory. It was built in 1899 as offices for directors of Cadbury Bros.

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Queen Mary's High School - A Walsall & West Midlands Gem!

A Grammar School founded by Queen Mary I in 1554. The current Tudorbethan buildings in Walsall dates to around 1850 at Littleton Street East and Upper Forster Street. Re-founded in 1893.

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The Leather Museum - A Walsall & West Midlands Gem!

The Leather Museum opened in Walsall back in 1988, in a restored Victorian factory building. It tells the story of the Walsall leather trade.

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The New Art Gallery Walsall - A Walsall & West Midlands Gem!

The New Art Gallery Walsall is located at Gallery Square near the Walsall Town Arm of the Walsall Canal. Opened in the year 2000. Galleries on four floors.

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The Old Fire Station, Coventry - A Coventry and West Midlands Gem!

The Old Fire Station is on Hales Street in Coventry. Built in 1902, it ceased to be a fire station in 1976 when they moved to Radford Road. Refurbished in 2006 with restaurants, bars etc.

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Millennium Place - A Coventry and West Midlands Gem!

Millennium Place opened in the early 2000s with the Whittle Arch and the new frontage to the Coventry Transport Museum. Built on the site of the Coventry Theatre.

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Statue of Frank Whittle in Coventry

At Millennium Place in Coventry is the bronze statue of Sir Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine. It was unveiled in 2007 and sculpted by Faith Winter. Below the Whittle Arches.

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Coventry Transport Museum - A Coventry and West Midlands Gem!

The Coventry Transport Museum was established in 1980. Home to a large collection of cars, motorbikes, bikes and commercial vehicles. Including those built in Coventry and Jaguar's.

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