Trentham Gardens railway station

For the mainline railway station, see Trentham (Staffordshire) railway station.

Trentham Gardens
General information
Location	Trentham, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent England
Coordinates	52°58′08″N2°11′47″W / 52.9690°N 2.1963°W / 52.9690; -2.1963
Grid reference	SJ867412
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway British Railways (London Midland region)
Key dates
28 March 1910	Opened as Trentham Park [1]
September 1927	closed to regular traffic [1]
7 October 1946	renamed Trentham Gardens [2]
1 October 1957	closed [1]
Location

Trentham Gardens railway station (originally named Trentham Park) was the last station built by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) and was the terminus of the short 1 mile 14 chains (1.18 miles; 1.89 kilometres) Trentham Park branch. ^[2]

The line was built to serve Trentham Gardens which had recently been opened to the public as pleasure gardens. ^[3]

Regular passenger traffic on the branch line was withdrawn between 1927 and 1938 although excursion trains ran frequently. In 1938 a regular Sunday service was reintroduced but the outbreak of the Second World War led to the discontinuation of these services. ^[2]

During the war the Bankers' Clearing House – the arrangement of the clearing banks to exchange cheques – was evacuated from London to Trentham Hall ^[4] and regular goods trains ran to Trentham Park to deliver supplies. Excursion trains continued throughout the war. ^[2]

After the war excursion trains continued, and in 1946 the station was renamed Trentham Gardens. ^[2] The growth in car traffic made the branch line less economic and it closed at the end of 1957 ^[1]

The station site photographed in 2018

Since closure the site of the station has been built upon and is now a housing estate.

References

1. Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 386. ISBN   978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC   612226077.
2. Jeuda, Basil (2010). The North Staffordshire Railway in LMS days. Vol. 1. Lydney, Gloucestershire: Lightmoor Press. p. 82. ISBN   978-1899889-48-8.
3. Christiansen, Rex & Miller, Robert William (1971). The North Staffordshire Railway. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. p. 114. ISBN   0-7153-5121-4.
4. Hennessey, Elizabeth (1992). A Domestic History of the Bank of England, 1930-1960. Cambridge University Press. p. 7. ISBN   978-0521391405.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2016). Rugeley to Stoke-on-Trent. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 96-100. ISBN   9781908174901. OCLC   972169395.

Preceding station		Historical railways		Following station
Terminus		North Staffordshire Railway Trentham Park branch		Hanford Road Line and station closed