The building of the Rubery and Frankley Railway was authorised by the Birmingham Corporation Act 1896 and construction started in 1897. It had been in use for several years by the time the survey work for these two Ordnance Survey maps was done in 1902.
This map shows the southern section of the branch at Rubery. Rubery station on the Midland and Great Western Railway Halesowen line is just out of view to the left had side of Balaam's Wood. The branch line leaves Rubery station sidings at the east end and turns north to cross New Road on the level before turning east to Frogmill Farm where the lane here is also crossed on the level (the building on the left hand side of the railway is the crossing keeper's cottage. A runaway siding is located here.
The line then crosses Egghill Lane on the level and continues between the Northfield reservoir and the housing estate (not illustrated) to enter the Frankley reservoir site between the wood and Frankley Lodge farm.
Maps by courtesy of Birmingham Central Library.