Great Haywood railway station

Great Haywood
Great Haywood
	The site of the station in 1995
General information
Location	Great Haywood, Staffordshire; England
Coordinates	52°48′02″N 2°00′24″W / 52.800694°N 2.006619°W
Grid reference	SJ996225
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland & Scottish Railway
Key dates
6 June 1887	Opened
6 January 1947	Closed

Great Haywood railway station is a disused railway station in Staffordshire, England.

The railway line between Stone and Colwich, England, was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) in 1849^[2] but a station to serve the village of Great Haywood was not opened until 1887. Although the line was a busy route for the NSR for traffic to and from Birmingham and the south; the amount of local traffic carried was low and passenger services were never intensive.

Passenger services on the line were, as a wartime measure, reduced in 1941 to a single train per day from Stoke which had no corresponding return journey.^[1] In 1947 all stopping passenger services between Stone and Colwich were withdrawn and Great Haywood along with the neighbouring station, Hixon, closed.^[3]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Hixon Line open, station closed		North Staffordshire Railway Stone to Colwich Line		Colwich Line open, station closed

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Quick (2009), p. 193.
^ Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 299.
^ Jeuda (2010), p. 91.

Sources

Christiansen, Rex & Miller, Robert William (1971). The North Staffordshire Railway. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5121-4.
Jeuda, Basil (2010). The North Staffordshire Railway in LMS days. Vol. 1. Lydney, Gloucestershire: Lightmoor Press. ISBN 978-1899889-48-8.
Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.

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