Hanley railway station

Hanley
Location
Place Hanley, Staffordshire
Area Stoke-on-Trent
Grid reference SJ879476
Operations
Original company North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
British Railways (London Midland region)
Platforms 2
History
13 July 1864 Opened[1]
1 November 1873 Relocated to Trinity Street[1]
2 March 1964 Closed to passengers[1]
1 August 1966 Closed to goods traffic
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Hanley railway station was built by the North Staffordshire Railway as part of the Potteries Loop Line and served the town of Hanley, Staffordshire, England.

The original station opened along with the first section of the Loop in 1864, but when the latter reached Burslem in 1873, a new station was built on a sharp curve (8 chains radius) in a cutting below Trinity Street.[2] The old station remained in use for goods traffic.

No trace of the station remains today; the cutting is filled in and is the site of a car park.[3] The former station is now covered by the car park to the new Tesco supermarket.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 201. ISBN 978 0 901461 57 5. OCLC 612226077.
  2. Christiansen, Rex; Miller, R. W. (1971). The North Staffordshire Railway. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5121-4.
  3. Ballantyne, Hugh (2005). British Railways Past & Present: North Staffordshire and the Trent Valley. Past & Present Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1858952042.

External links

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Line and station closed
North Staffordshire Railway
Line open, station closed

Coordinates: 53°01′33″N 2°10′50″W / 53.0257°N 2.1805°W / 53.0257; -2.1805

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