Waterloo Road (NSR) railway station

Waterloo Road
Site of Waterloo Road station
General information
Location	Hanley, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent England
Coordinates	53°01′53″N2°10′57″W / 53.0314°N 2.1826°W / 53.0314; -2.1826
Grid reference	SJ878482
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
1 April 1900	Opened [1]
4 October 1943	Closed to passenger services [1]
3 January 1966	Closed to general goods services
31 July 1969	Closed to all goods services
Location

Waterloo Road railway station was built by the North Staffordshire Railway as part of on the Potteries Loop Line and served the north of the town of Hanley, Staffordshire. The station opened in 1900 as it was the last station on the Potteries Loop Line by The North Staffordshire Railway or "Knotty" and the first station on the loop line to close to passengers in 1943 at the height of the Second World War by The London Midland and Scottish Railway or "LMS" ^[2] until 1966 as general goods traffic remained with oil traffic continuing until trains from Walker's Century Oils, now "Fuchs Oil", ceased sending the trains by 1969 to Hanley railway station nearby and the line was lifted Thus ending over 100 years of the Potteries Loop Line.

As of 2025 opposite Forest Park School, Stansgate Walk what used to be where the Granville Level Crossing is still identifiable today located next to the newsagents looking from century street on the left back towards Hanley and looking to Hanley Forest Park on the right but no other trace of the station remains today except for one black wall which can be identifiable as part of the station could still exist as well as the first house on Winifred Street, the station was at the road crossing on Waterloo Road between the Etruria Loop Line near Hanley and Hanley Forest Park near Cobridge.

References

1. Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 400. ISBN   978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC   612226077.
2. Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 242. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.

External links

• Waterloo Road page on Potteries.org.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Cobridge Line and station closed		North Staffordshire Railway Potteries Loop Line		Hanley Line and station closed