Kidsgrove railway station

Kidsgrove
Kidsgrove
Location
Place	Kidsgrove
Local authority	Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme
Grid reference	SJ837543
Operations
Station code	KDG
Managed by	East Midlands Trains
Number of platforms	4
DfT category	E
	Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections; from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13	165,132
2013/14	181,710
2014/15	195,832
2015/16	205,248
2016/17	228,396
History
9 October 1848	Opened as Harecastle[1]
2 October 1944	renamed Kidsgrove Central[1]
18 April 1966	renamed Kidsgrove[1]
	National Rail – UK railway stations
	* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kidsgrove from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
	UK Railways portal

Kidsgrove railway station serves the town of Kidsgrove in Staffordshire, England. The station is 7.5 miles (12.07 km) north of Stoke-on-Trent. The station is served by trains on the Crewe to Derby Line which is also a community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Trains (EMT) train operating company (TOC).

In the year 2009/10 the usage of the station grew by almost 58% to over 100,000 recorded journeys, in addition more than 6,434 passengers used the station to change trains. The increase in usage (followed by a similar increase for 2010/11) has been attributed to improved timetable in December 2008 (specifically the introduction of London Midland's Desiro service to London Euston via Tamworth).^[2]

History

The present station was opened 9 October 1848 by the North Staffordshire Railway as Harecastle and was during the early years of the North Staffordshire era variously called Harecastle Junction, Kidsgrove Junction. Kidsgrove Junction, Harecastle before settling upon Harecastle in 1875.^[1] Between 1885/6 and 1923/4 it was called Harecastle for Kidsgrove.^[1] In 1944 it was renamed Kidsgrove.

In British Rail days it was known as Kidsgrove Central when the town had three stations, the other two were Kidsgrove Liverpool Rd and Market Street Halt on the old North Staffordshire Railway's Potteries Loop Line (All three stations were opened by the North Staffordshire Railway). It is situated on the Manchester branch of the West Coast Main Line at the junction where the line from Stoke-on-Trent divides for Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly.

It is just north of the Harecastle Tunnels on the Trent and Mersey Canal and the Harecastle railway tunnel and 1965 railway diversion.

Service pattern

Platform 1

Hourly Northern service direct to Stoke on Trent^[3] (operated by class 323 EMUs)

Platform 2

Hourly Northern service to Manchester Piccadilly calling at Congleton, Macclesfield, Prestbury, Adlington, Poynton, Bramhall, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Heaton Chapel and Levenshulme (operated by class 323 EMUs)

Platform 3

Hourly East Midlands Trains service to Derby calling at Longport, Stoke on Trent, Longton, Blythe Bridge, Uttoxeter, Tutbury and Hatton and Peartree (at peak times)^[4] (operated by class 153 or 156 DMUs)
Hourly London Northwestern service to London Euston calling at Stoke on Trent, Stone, Stafford, Rugeley Trent Valley, Lichfield Trent Valley, Tamworth, Atherstone, Nuneaton, Rugby and Milton Keynes Central.^[5] (operated by class 350 EMUs)

Platform 4

Hourly East Midlands Trains service to Crewe calling at Alsager (operated by class 153 or 156 DMUs)
Hourly London Northwestern service to Crewe calling at Alsager (operated by class 350 EMUs)

No services operated by Virgin Trains or CrossCountry call at Kidsgrove, (though 4 Cross Country and 4 Virgin Trains services pass through platforms 1 & 2 each hour)

A freight train from the Crewe line in the mid 1960s just before the withdrawal of steam

References

1 2 3 4 5 Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.
↑ Office of Rail Regulation (2010). "Station usage". Office of Rail Regulation. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
↑ Table 84 National Rail timetable, May 2016
↑ Table 50 National Rail timetable, May 2016
↑ Table 67 National Rail timetable, May 2016

External links

Train times and station information for Kidsgrove railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail	Following station
Longport	East Midlands Trains Crewe to Derby Line	Alsager
Stoke on Trent	London Northwestern Railway London - Crewe	Alsager
Longport	Northern Stoke-Manchester	Congleton
Stoke-on-Trent	Northern Stoke-Manchester	Congleton
Preceding station	Historical railways	Following station
Alsager Road Line open, station closed	North Staffordshire Railway Crewe to Derby Line	Chatterley Line and station closed
Mow Cop and Scholar Green Line open, station closed	North Staffordshire Railway Macclesfield to Stoke Line
Lawton Line and station closed	North Staffordshire Railway Sandbach to Stoke Line

Coordinates: 53°05′11″N 2°14′41″W / 53.0863°N 2.2446°W / 53.0863; -2.2446

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[Quick-1] 1 2 3 4 5 Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.

[2] Office of Rail Regulation (2010). "Station usage". Office of Rail Regulation. Retrieved 2010-03-29.

[3] Table 84 National Rail timetable, May 2016

[4] Table 50 National Rail timetable, May 2016

[5] Table 67 National Rail timetable, May 2016