Great Haywood | |||||
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 The site of the station in 1995 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Great Haywood, Staffordshire England | ||||
| Coordinates | 52°48′02″N2°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] | ||||
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Great Haywood railway station is a disused railway station in Staffordshire, England.
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 [1] In 1947 all stopping passenger services between Stone and Colwich were withdrawn and Great Haywood along with the neighbouring station, Hixon, closed.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 | ||
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| Hixon Line open, station closed | North Staffordshire Railway Stone to Colwich Line | Colwich Line open, station closed | ||
