Great Haywood railway station
Great Haywood | |
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Location | |
Place | Stafford |
Area | Staffordshire |
Coordinates | 52°48′03″N 2°03′58″W / 52.8007°N 2.066°WCoordinates: 52°48′03″N 2°03′58″W / 52.8007°N 2.066°W |
Grid reference | SJ996225 |
Operations | |
Original company | North Staffordshire Railway |
Platforms | 2 |
History | |
6 June 1887 | Opened[1] |
6 January 1947 | Closed[1] |
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z | |
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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which had no corresponding return journey.[1] In 1947 all stopping passenger services between Stone and Colwich were withdrawn and Great Haywood along with the neighbouring station, Hixon, closed.[3]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 | ||
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Hixon Line open, station closed |
North Staffordshire Railway Stone to Colwich Line |
Colwich Line open, station closed |
References
- Notes
- 1 2 3 Quick (2009), p. 193.
- ↑ Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 299.
- ↑ Jeuda (2010), p. 91.
- Sources
- Christiansen, Rex & Miller, Robert William (1971). The North Staffordshire Railway. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5121- 4.
- Jeuda, Basil (2010). The North Staffordshire Railway in LMS days 1. Lydney, Gloucestershire: Lightmoor Press. ISBN 978-1899889-48-8.
- Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978 0 901461 57 5. OCLC 612226077.