The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, the B&G, was built in 1840 from Gloucester to a temporary terminus at Camp Hill reaching Curzon Street Station the following year. The line passes to the east of Hazelwell.

In 1844 the Midland Railway took over the line and by 1885 it was used with the Birmingham West Suburban line BWSR as a circular commuter route from New Street station via Moseley and Kings Heath to Lifford and back via Selly Oak and Edgbaston.

When the BWSR was made double-track in 1885 it became the Midland Railway’s mainline route from Bristol and Gloucester, the B&G being used only for local services and freight. It is now used only for freight and diverted traffic. A station was built at Hazelwell in 1904 where the railway passes under Cartland Road; a ticket office stood on the bridge.

The station closed in 1941 during World War 2. It is proposed to reopen the station in in time for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022.

No settlement is shown on the 1834 Ordnance Survey maps around here, but by 1888 there was housing at Hazelwell Street/ Pershore Road, a hamlet then known as Stirchley Street. By 1906 buildings, houses and shops, spread in a ribbon along the Pershore Road from Hazelwell Street as far as Fordhouse Lane.