Newcastle-under-Lyme railway station

Disused railway station in Staffordshire, England

Newcastle-under-Lyme

General information
Location	Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, Newcastle-under-Lyme England
Grid reference	SJ852463
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
6 September 1852	Opened
2 March 1964	Closed

Newcastle-under-Lyme railway station was a railway station that served the town of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. It was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1852.

The station was located on King Street opposite the Borough Arms Hotel. A small goods yard was located on Water Street. It was closed on 2 March 1964.

Present day

The site north of the station has been wiped away by new builds near the former Hartshill tunnel and Hartshill and Basford Halt. The cutting the station was located near has also been filled in and is now part of Station Walks which is a pedestrian and cyclist footpath but the tunnel and overbridges are still in place although a majority of the station site has been landscaped.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Brampton Halt Line closed, station closed		North Staffordshire Railway Stoke-Market Drayton Line		Hartshill & Basford Halt Line closed, station closed

References

Ballantyne, Hugh (2005). British Railways Past & Present: North Staffordshire and the Trent Valley. Past & Present Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-85895-204-2.
"Staffordshire Past Track - Newcastle Railway Station". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2009.

Audley branch	Audley and Bignall End Halmerend Keele Leycett
Biddulph Valley	Biddulph Black Bull Bucknall and Northwood Chell Halt Fenton Manor Ford Green & Smallthorne Knypersley Halt Mossley Halt
Cheadle branch	Cheadle Tean
Churnet Valley	Alton Towers Cliffe Park Denstone Leek Leek Brook Oakamoor Rocester Rudyard Rushton
Crewe to Derby	Bromshall Carter's Crossing Halt Chatterley Cresswell Etruria Fenton Leigh Marchington Meir Normacot Sudbury
Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension	Horninglow Rolleston-on-Dove Stretton and Claymills
Potteries Loop	Burslem Cobridge Etruria Hanley Kidsgrove Liverpool Road Market Street Halt Newchapel and Goldenhill Pitts Hill Tunstall Waterloo Road
Stoke to Leek	Endon Fenton Manor Leek Leek Brook Milton Stockton Brook Wall Grange
Stoke to Market Drayton	Brampton Halt Crown Street Halt Hartshill and Basford Halt Keele Keele Park Knutton Halt Liverpool Road Halt Madeley Road Newcastle-under-Lyme Silverdale
Stoke to Stafford	Mount Pleasant Halt Norton Bridge Sideway Halt Whieldon Road Halt
Stone to Colwich	Aston-by-Stone Great Haywood Hixon Sandon Weston and Ingestre
Trentham Park branch	Hanford Road Halt Trentham Gardens Trentham
Waterhouses branch	Bradnop Caldon Low Halt Ipstones Waterhouses Winkhill

Shropshire Union Railways

South Staffordshire Railway

Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway

Trent Valley Railway

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