Burton-on-Trent railway station

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Burton-on-Trent
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General information
Location Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire
England, United Kingdom
Ordnance Survey National Grid SK242232
Managed by East Midlands Railway
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeBUT
Classification DfT category D
Passengers
2018/19Increase2.svg 0.875 million
 Interchange  10,645

Facilities

Access to the station is from the bridge on Borough Road which crosses the railway line. At road level, there is a taxi rank, a shop and the station entrance which contains the ticket office. In order to reach the two platforms, passengers descend a broad staircase. A lift is also available.

Only a single building now stands at the platform level (Burton is an island station where the tracks run around a single platform) and this building incorporates a waiting room, toilets and a dispatcher's office. Timetable information is available from destination boards and real-time customer information screens with automated train announcements. There is a ramp for step-free access between the two platforms.

The station has the PlusBus scheme where train and bus tickets can be bought together at a saving.

Motive power depot

As a centre for beer brewing, Burton generated a great deal of freight traffic. Burton itself was criss-crossed by the lines of the brewery companies' private lines with a plethora of level crossings. In 1870 a new locomotive shed was built to the south of the station. This consisted of a roundhouse built round a 42-foot (13 m) turntable. In 1892 another roundhouse was added with a 50-foot (15 m) turntable. In 1923 these were replaced by 57-foot (17 m) and 55-foot (17 m) turntables respectively. Originally coded "2" by the Midland Railway, it became 17B in 1935.

By 1948 the depot had 111 locomotives allocated to it. With the arrival of diesel locomotives, [ citation needed ] a reorganisation of motive power districts in the London Midland Region took place in September 1963. [16] Under this, the former Nottingham (16), Derby (17) and Toton (18) divisions were amalgamated, with Toton as the main shed for the division; this was coded 16A, [16] and Burton-on-Trent became 16F. [17] Steam traction was removed from this depot in September 1966 [17] and it closed to steam in 1968, but carried on for diesel locomotive fuelling and stabling.

Services

Burton station lies on the Cross Country Route between Derby and Birmingham New Street. All services that stop here are provided by CrossCountry.

Trains between Cardiff, Birmingham and Nottingham generally call here every hour in each direction.

Long-distance inter-city services, between the north-east and south-west, call here approximately once per hour or once every two hours each direction; these operate northbound towards Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Leeds, Newcastle or York and southbound to Bristol Temple Meads, Penzance or Plymouth. [18]

The station is managed by East Midlands Railway, although none of their trains call here.

Preceding station National Rail logo.svg National Rail Following station
CrossCountry
CrossCountry
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Line and station closed
 Great Northern Railway Terminus
Disused railways
Terminus  Midland Railway
Swadlincote Loop Line		  Swadlincote
Line and station closed
  Historical railways  
Terminus Midland Railway
Line open, station closed
Branston (Staffordshire)
Line open, station closed		  Midland Railway
Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway 		  Willington

Future

It has been proposed in the past that the line between Burton and Leicester, known as the Ivanhoe Line, to be reopened for passenger use. [19] Services had originally been withdrawn in 1964 due to the Beeching Axe, though the line is still open for freight traffic. In January 2019, an action group called Campaign to Re-Open The Ivanhoe Line (CRIL) was formed in Swadlincote to campaign for the reopening of the line. [20]

In June 2019, the Derby Telegraph published an article showing support for the reopening of the South Staffordshire Line for trams. [21] According to the article, London-based consultants Cushman and Wakefield had put forward suggestions to both Staffordshire County Council and East Staffordshire Borough Council to look at bringing trams into Burton to promote tourism and businesses.

In literature

The station, the railway sheds and the town's popular trainspotting locations feature significantly in the autobiographical book, Platform Souls by local author Nicholas Whittaker.

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References

  1. ↑ Twells, H.N. (1997). The Railways in and Around Burton upon Trent, p. 11. Challenger Publications. ISBN   1899624287.
  2. ↑ "The new Midland Railway Station at Burton-on-Trent". Derby Daily Telegraph. British Newspaper Archive. 30 April 1883. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  3. ↑ Taylor, Josh (6 September 2011). "£700,000 railway station makeover is under way". Burton Mail. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  4. ↑ Moody, Jenny. "Good news for drivers as major Burton road finally reopens", Burton Mail , 4 November 2019. Retrieved on 15 January 2020.
  5. ↑ "Presentation" . Derby Mercury and Express. England. 10 October 1866. Retrieved 5 December 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Presentation" . Staffordshire Advertiser. England. 31 December 1870. Retrieved 16 September 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
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  16. 1 2 Walford, John (2012). A Detailed History of British Railways Standard Steam Locomotives. Vol. Five: The End of an Era. Maidenhead: RCTS. p. 13. ISBN   978-0-901115-97-3.
  17. 1 2 Walford 2012 , p. 18
  18. ↑ "Train Timetables | Scotland, North East & Manchester to the South West and South Coast | Sunday 10 December 2023 – Saturday 01 June 2024" (PDF). CrossCountry Trains.
  19. ↑ Leicestershire County Council - Ivanhoe Line Stage II Scheme Re-Appraisal Leicestershire County Council Report April 2009; Retrieved 2014-01-23
  20. ↑ Waldron, Ben. "Action group forms to reopen historic railway line", Burton Mail , 25 January 2019. Retrieved on 15 January 2020.
  21. ↑ Kreft, Helen. "Tram trains could be key to bringing new jobs to Burton", Burton Mail , Burton upon Trent, 20 June 2019. Retrieved on 15 January 2020.

Further reading

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