Kidsgrove railway station

Kidsgrove

Location
Place	Kidsgrove
Local authority	Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme
Grid reference	SJ837543
Operations
Station code	KDG
Managed by	East Midlands Trains
Number of platforms	4
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	141,158
2011/12	158,478
2012/13	165,132
2013/14	181,710
2014/15	195,832
History
9 October 1848 (1848-10-09)	Opened as Harecastle^[1]
2 October 1944	renamed Kidsgrove Central^[1]
18 April 1966	renamed Kidsgrove^[1]
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kidsgrove from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Kidsgrove railway station serves the town of Kidsgrove in Staffordshire, England. The station is 7.5 miles (12.07 km) north of Stoke-on-Trent. The station is served by trains on the Crewe to Derby Line which is also a community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Trains (EMT) Train Operating Company (TOC).

Tickets for travel should be purchased from the ticket office or ticket machine at the station entrance, in accordance with the national conditions of carriage the guard on the train will only retail 'Anytime' tickets, unless the ticket machine is not working or the ticket required is not available to purchase. The station is not part of any Penalty Fare scheme.^[2]

In the year 2009/10 the usage of the station grew by almost 58% to over 100,000 recorded journeys, in addition more than 6,434 passengers used the station to change trains. The increase in usage (followed by a similar increase for 2010/11) has been attributed to improved timetable in December 2008 (specifically the introduction of London Midland's Desiro service to London Euston via Tamworth).^[3]

History

The present station was opened 9 October 1848 by the North Staffordshire Railway as Harecastle and was during the early years of the North Staffordshire era variously called Harecastle Junction, Kidsgrove Junction. Kidsgrove Junction, Harecastle before settling upon Harecastle in 1875.^[1] Between 1885/6 and 1923/4 it was called Harecastle for Kidsgrove.^[1] In 1944 it was renamed Kidsgrove.

In British Rail days it was known as Kidsgrove Central when the town had three stations, the other two were Kidsgrove Liverpool Rd and Market Street Halt on the old North Staffordshire Railway's Potteries Loop Line (All three stations were opened by the North Staffordshire Railway). It is situated on the Manchester branch of the West Coast Main Line at the junction where the line from Stoke-on-Trent divides for Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly.

It is just north of the Harecastle Tunnels on the Trent and Mersey Canal and the Harecastle railway tunnel and 1965 railway diversion.

Service pattern

Platform 1

Hourly Northern service direct to Stoke on Trent

Platform 2

Hourly Northern service to Manchester Piccadilly calling at Congleton, Macclesfield, Prestbury, Adlington, Poynton, Bramhall, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Heaton Chapel and Levenshulme

Platform 3

Hourly East Midlands Trains service to Derby calling at Longport, Stoke on Trent, Longton, Blythe Bridge, Uttoxeter, Tutbury and Hatton and Peartree (at peak times)
Hourly London Midland service to London Euston calling at Stoke on Trent, Stone, Stafford, Rugeley Trent Valley, Lichfield Trent Valley, Tamworth, Atherstone, Nuneaton, Rugby and Milton Keynes Central.

Platform 4

Hourly East Midlands Trains service to Crewe calling at Alsager
Hourly London Midland service to Crewe calling at Alsager

No services operated by Virgin Trains or CrossCountry call at Kidsgrove.

A freight train from the Crewe line in the mid 1960s just before the withdrawal of steam

References

1 2 3 4 5 Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.
↑ "Warning have you paid". Department for Transport / London Midland. 2008. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
↑ Office of Rail Regulation (2010). "Station usage". Office of Rail Regulation. Retrieved 2010-03-29.

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Train times and station information for Kidsgrove railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail	Following station
Longport	East Midlands Trains Crewe to Derby Line	Alsager
Stoke on Trent	London Midland London - Crewe	Alsager
Longport	Northern Rail Stoke-Manchester	Congleton
Stoke-on-Trent	Northern Rail Stoke-Manchester	Congleton
Preceding station	Historical railways	Following station
Alsager Road Line open, station closed	North Staffordshire Railway Crewe to Derby Line	Chatterley Line and station closed
Mow Cop and Scholar Green Line open, station closed	North Staffordshire Railway Macclesfield to Stoke Line
Lawton Line and station closed	North Staffordshire Railway Sandbach to Stoke Line

Coordinates: 53°05′11″N 2°14′41″W / 53.0863°N 2.2446°W / 53.0863; -2.2446

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