Tean railway station

Tean
Tean
	The remains of Tean railway station, December 2008
Location	Totmonslow, Staffordshire, Staffordshire Moorlands ; England
Coordinates	52°57′16″N2°00′33″W / 52.9545°N 2.0093°W Coordinates: 52°57′16″N2°00′33″W / 52.9545°N 2.0093°W
Grid reference	SJ994397
Platforms	1
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
7 November 1892	Opened as Totmonslow
1 February 1907	Renamed to "Tean"
1 June 1953	Closed

Last updated December 10, 2020

Tean railway station was a railway station located on the Cheadle Branch Line at Totmonslow, Staffordshire. It was opened as Totmonslow in 1892 and was the terminus of the line until it reached Cheadle in 1901.^[2]

Facilities

The station was located in a cutting underneath the Stoke to Uttoxeter turnpike road and had a small goods siding with shed. Because of the restricted location, a loop was provided a short distance to the south, although it was never actually used a such and was removed in 1938.^[2]

A platform shelter was the only building until 1907, when part of the station building from Keele Park railway station was erected, the latter having closed earlier that year. Up until this point, a nearby cottage was used as a booking office.^[2]

Later years

The station was renamed in 1906 after the village of Upper Tean, which was located around a mile east of Totmonslow. It was never well used and closed in 1953, having by then been reduced to a halt. The goods siding was soon removed and the station site occupied by a scrap merchant until 1977.^[2]

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Cresswell Line and station closed		North Staffordshire Railway Cheadle Branch Line		Cheadle Line and station closed

The site today

The track was removed in 2013. The platform remains, although overgrown, and can be seen from the adjacent road bridge.^[3]

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References

↑ "Minute No. 6208". Minutes of Meeting of the Superintendents' Conference (Report). London: Railway Clearing House. 23 January 1907. (Unpublished).
1 2 3 4 Baker, Allan C. (1979). The Cheadle Railway. The Oakwood Press. ISBN 085361248X.
↑ Ballantyne, Hugh (2005). British Railways Past & Present: North Staffordshire and the Trent Valley. Past & Present Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1858952042.