Great Haywood railway station

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

Great Haywood
The site of the station in 1995
General information
Location	Great Haywood, Staffordshire England
Coordinates	52.800694°N 2.006619°W / 52.800694; -2.006619
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[1]
6 January 1947	Closed[1]

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which had no corresponding return journey.^[1] In 1947 all stopping passenger services between Stone and Colwich were withdrawn and Great Haywood along with the neighbouring station, Hixon, closed.^[3]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

1. Quick (2009), p. 193.
2. Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 299.
3. 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.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2016). Rugeley to Stoke-on-Trent. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 16-18. ISBN 9781908174901. OCLC 972169395.