Hixon railway station

Hixon
The site of the station in 1995
General information
Location	Hixon, Staffordshire England
Coordinates	52°49′48″N2°00′46″W / 52.829872°N 2.012769°W / 52.829872; -2.012769 Coordinates: 52°49′48″N2°00′46″W / 52.829872°N 2.012769°W / 52.829872; -2.012769
Grid reference	SJ992258
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland & Scottish Railway
Key dates
December 1864	Opened [1]
6 January 1947	Closed [1]

Hixon railway station is a disused railway station in Staffordshire, England.

The railway line between Stone and Colwich was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) in 1849 ^[2] A station was opened to serve the village of Hixon, the exact opening date of the station is not recorded but it first appeared in Bradshaw's Railway Guide in December 1864. ^[1] 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.

The station was renamed as Hixon Halt by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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. ^[3] In 1947 all stopping passenger services between Stone and Colwich were withdrawn and Hixon along with the neighbouring station, Great Haywood, closed. ^[4]

At the north end of the station was a level crossing and it was this crossing that was the scene of the Hixon rail crash in January 1968.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Weston and Ingestre Line open, station closed		North Staffordshire Railway Stone to Colwich Line		Great Haywood Line open, station closed

References

Notes

1. Quick (2009), p. 213.
2. Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 299.
3. Quick (2009), p. 193.
4. 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

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2016). Rugeley to Stoke-on-Trent. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 19-23. ISBN   9781908174901. OCLC   972169395.