Great Haywood railway station

Great Haywood
Location
Place Stafford
Area Staffordshire
Coordinates 52°48′03″N 2°03′58″W / 52.8007°N 2.066°W / 52.8007; -2.066Coordinates: 52°48′03″N 2°03′58″W / 52.8007°N 2.066°W / 52.8007; -2.066
Grid reference SJ996225
Operations
Original company North Staffordshire Railway
Platforms 2
History
6 June 1887 Opened[1]
6 January 1947 Closed[1]
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Great Haywood railway station is a disused railway station in Staffordshire, England.

The railway line between Stone and Colwich, England, was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) in 1849[2] but a station to serve the village of Great Haywood was not opened until 1887. Although the line was a busy route for the NSR for traffic to and from Birmingham and the south; the amount of local traffic carried was low and passenger services were never intensive.

Passenger services on the line were, as a wartime measure, reduced in 1941 to a single train per day from Stoke which had no corresponding return journey.[1] In 1947 all stopping passenger services between Stone and Colwich were withdrawn and Great Haywood along with the neighbouring station, Hixon, closed.[3]

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Hixon
Line open, station closed
  North Staffordshire Railway
Stone to Colwich Line
  Colwich
Line open, station closed

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