as a bypass. A number of bus routes serve the town, including one to Birmingham, the Number X70 Route which terminates in Chelmsley Wood operated by National Express West Midlands. The new railway station also has an interchange serving a direct Sutton Coldfield – Coleshill - Birmingham Airport bus connection. The town is served by Coleshill Parkway railway station, which reopened in 2007, on the site of the previous Coleshill station, which had closed in 1968. It is on the Birmingham to Peterborough Line and is served half hourly by CrossCountry as part of their service between Birmingham, Nuneaton, Leicester, Peterborough, Cambridge and Stansted Airport. Historically the town was also served by Maxstoke on the Stonebridge Railway which closed in 1917 and Coleshill railway station, originally named Forge Mills, which closed in 1968. As a result until 2007, the town's nearest railway station was at Water Orton, some to the north-west. Twin Town Coleshill has been twinned with Chassieu near Lyon in France since 1983. Education The Coleshill School Coleshill Church of England Primary School St Edwards Roman Catholic Primary School High Meadow Community School Primary School Woodland Special School Notable people from Coleshill Reverend George Lloyd (1820–1885), a curate and archaeologist Baron Plumb, farmer and politician John Wynne (1819–1893), cricketer References External links Coleshill Community Coleshill at British History Online Market towns in Warwickshire Towns in Warwickshire Burial sites of the FitzGerald dynasty