Oakamoor railway station

Oakamoor
Platform remains in 2009
General information
Location	Oakamoor, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire England
Coordinates	52°59′50″N1°55′19″W / 52.9971°N 1.9219°W / 52.9971; -1.9219
Grid reference	SK053444
Platforms	3
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway British Railways London Midland Region
Key dates
1 September 1849	Opened [1]
4 January 1965	Closed [1]

Oakamoor railway station is a closed railway station in the Churnet Valley, Staffordshire. The station was opened in 1849 as part of the Churnet Valley Line constructed by the North Staffordshire Railway. Serving the village of Oakamoor the station remained open until 1965 when all services were withdrawn, A little north of the station, freight traffic from Oakamoor Sand Sidings continued until 1988.

NSR Battery electric locomotive built 1917 for use at Oakamoor

From 1917 until 1963 shunting in these sidings was performed by a battery-electric locomotive, built on a wagon chassis. This has now been preserved at the National Railway Museum.

Preservation

The track has been lifted from froghall junction with the track bed owned by Churnet Valley Railway (CVR). On September 2008, the first service for 20 years ran to Oakamoor with a CVR shareholders' special before the track was lifted owing to its poor condition.

The railway trackbed that extends down the Churnet Valley to the former station at Alton has been converted to a footpath.

The CVR hopes to one day reach Oakamoor station as part of a project in bringing the CVR into becoming the largest preserved railway network within the centre of England.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Kingsley and Froghall		North Staffordshire Railway Churnet Valley Line		Alton Towers

Notes

1. Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 298. ISBN   978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC   612226077.

External links

• Oakamoor station on navigable 1948 O. S. map