Great Haywood railway station is a disused railway station in Staffordshire, England.
Great Haywood | |
|---|---|
 The site of the station in 1995 | |
| General information | |
| Location | Great Haywood, Staffordshire England |
| Coordinates | 52°48′02″N 2°00′24″W / 52.800694°N 2.006619°W |
| Grid reference | SJ996225 |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Original company | North Staffordshire Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland & Scottish Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 6 June 1887 | Opened[1] |
| 6 January 1947 | Closed[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which had no corresponding return journey.[1] In 1947 all stopping passenger services between Stone and Colwich were withdrawn and Great Haywood along with the neighbouring station, Hixon, closed.[3]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
edit- Notes
- ^ a b c 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. 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.
Further reading
edit- Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2016). Rugeley to Stoke-on-Trent. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 16-18. ISBN 9781908174901. OCLC 972169395.