Great Haywood railway station

Great Haywood railway station is a disused railway station in Staffordshire, England.

Great Haywood
The site of the station in 1995
General information
LocationGreat Haywood, Staffordshire
England
Coordinates52°48′02″N 2°00′24″W / 52.800694°N 2.006619°W / 52.800694; -2.006619
Grid referenceSJ996225
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyNorth Staffordshire Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland & Scottish Railway
Key dates
6 June 1887Opened[1]
6 January 1947Closed[1]

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which had no corresponding return journey.[1] In 1947 all stopping passenger services between Stone and Colwich were withdrawn and Great Haywood along with the neighbouring station, Hixon, closed.[3]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

References

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Notes
  1. ^ a b c Quick (2009), p. 193.
  2. ^ Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 299.
  3. ^ 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. Vol. 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 & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.

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