Kidsgrove Liverpool Road railway station

Kidsgrove Liverpool Road
General information
Location	Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, Newcastle-Under-Lyme England
Coordinates	53°05′21″N2°14′42″W / 53.0891°N 2.2450°W / 53.0891; -2.2450
Grid reference	SJ836546
Line(s)	Potteries Loop Line
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
15 November 1875	Opened as Kidsgrove [1]
2 October 1944	Renamed to Kidsgrove Liverpool Road [1]
2 March 1964	Closed [1]
Location

Kidsgrove Liverpool Road railway station was the northernmost station on the Potteries Loop Line and served the town of Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. It was opened as Kidsgrove in 1875, but renamed in 1944 when the nearby Harecastle station became Kidsgrove railway station. ^[2]

Supermarket on the site of the former station (2014)

Many of the locals from Kidsgrove who remember Kidsgrove station can still refer to it as Harecastle as well as Kidsgrove Liverpool Road Station before and after 1944. Under the Beeching Report in 1963 it was listed it for closure and then closed to passengers in 1964 but the lines which remained in use until the electrification of the mainline and then the signal box closed in 1975. Unlike the Mainline which will go from Kidsgrove to Macclesfield or onwards to Manchester and Liverpool, the site of Kidsgrove Liverpool Road Station is now occupied by a Tesco supermarket; opposite from Tesco are the Gantries that are part of Kidsgrove Railway Station. ^[3]

References

1. Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 231. ISBN   978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC   612226077.
2. Oppitz, Leslie (2006). Lost Railways of Staffordshire. Newbury: Countryside Books. ISBN   1-85306-992-2.
3. Ballantyne, Hugh (2005). British Railways Past & Present: North Staffordshire and the Trent Valley. Past & Present Publishing Ltd. ISBN   1-85895-204-2.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Mow Cop and Scholar Green Line and station closed		North Staffordshire Railway Potteries Loop Line		Market Street Halt Line and station closed