Colwich railway station

Colwich
Former station house
General information
Location	Colwich, Staffordshire England
Coordinates	52°47′19″N1°59′12″W / 52.7886°N 1.9868°W / 52.7886; -1.9868
Grid reference	SK009212
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Trent Valley Railway
Pre-grouping	London & North Western Railway North Staffordshire Railway
Key dates
15 September 1847	Opened [1]
3 February 1958	Closed [1]
Location

Colwich railway station is a disused railway station in Colwich, Staffordshire, England. The former station is adjacent to Colwich Junction, where the Trent Valley Line to Stafford and the cut-off line to Stoke-on-Trent diverge.

Authorisation for a railway line between Rugby and Stafford was obtained in 1845 by the Trent Valley Railway. By 1847, the Trent Valley Railway company had been incorporated in the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) and the line was opened. ^[2] A station opened at Colwich in September of that year and, like most of the stations on the Trent Valley Railway, it was designed by the architect John William Livock. ^[3]

In 1849, the railway line between Stone and Colwich was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR). ^[4] At Colwich, the LNWR and NSR agreed to own and operate the station jointly; ^[5] a situation that remained until both railways became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.

Local passenger services over the former NSR route were withdrawn in 1947 ^[5] and all other services were withdrawn from Colwich in 1958, when the station was closed. ^[1]

The former station house remains alongside the tracks and is now a Grade II listed building. ^[6]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Milford and Brocton Line open, station closed		London & North Western Railway Trent Valley Line		Rugeley Trent Valley Line and station open
Great Haywood Line open, station closed		North Staffordshire Railway Stone to Colwich Line		Terminus

See also

• Colwich rail crash, which took place at the site of the station in 1986.

References

Notes

1. Quick (2009), p. 132.
2. Hackwood (1925), p. 99.
3. Anderson & Fox (1981), p. 98.
4. Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 299.
5. Jeuda (2010), p. 91.
6. Historic England. "Former railway station house (1116586)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 12 November 2014.

Sources

• Anderson, Roy Claude & Fox, Gregory (1981). A pictorial record of L.M.S. architecture. Oxford. ISBN   978-0860930-83-9.
• Christiansen, Rex & Miller, Robert William (1971). The North Staffordshire Railway. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN   0-7153-5121-4.
• Hackwood, Frederick Willam (1925). Glimpses of bygone Staffordshire. Mercury.
• 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

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2016). Rugeley to Stoke-on-Trent. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 9-15. ISBN   9781908174901. OCLC   972169395.