Oakamoor railway station

Oakamoor

Platform remains in 2009.
Location
Place Oakamoor
Area Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire
Coordinates 52°59′50″N 1°55′19″W / 52.9971°N 1.9219°W / 52.9971; -1.9219Coordinates: 52°59′50″N 1°55′19″W / 52.9971°N 1.9219°W / 52.9971; -1.9219
Operations
Pre-grouping North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping LMS
British Railways London Midland Region
Platforms 3
History
1 September 1849 Opened[1]
4 January 1965 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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Oakamoor railway station is a closed railway station in the Churnet Valley, Staffordshire. The station was opened in 1849 as part of the Churnet Valley Line constructed by the North Staffordshire Railway. Serving the village of Oakamoor the station remained open until 1965 when all services were withdrawn, A little north of the station, freight traffic from Oakamoor Sand Sidings continued until 1988.

After WWI, shunting in these sidings was performed by an unusual battery-electric locomotive, built on a wagon chassis. This has now been preserved at the National Railway Museum.

Preservation

The track remains in situ as far as the sand sidings and is now owned by the Churnet Valley Railway (CVR). It is not yet in regular use, but on 21 September 2008, the first service for 20 years ran to Oakamoor with a CVR shareholders' special.

The railway trackbed that extends down the Churnet Valley to the former station at Alton has been converted to a footpath.

The CVR hopes to one day reach Oakamoor station as part of a project in bringing the CVR into becoming the largest preserved railway network within the centre of England.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Kingsley and Froghall   North Staffordshire Railway
Churnet Valley Line
  Alton Towers

Notes

  1. 1 2 Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 298. ISBN 978 0 901461 57 5. OCLC 612226077.

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