Great Haywood railway station

52°48′02″N 2°00′24″W / 52.800694°N 2.006619°W / 52.800694; -2.006619Grid referenceSJ996225Platforms2Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyNorth Staffordshire RailwayPost-groupingLondon, Midland & Scottish RailwayKey dates6 June 1887Opened^[1]6 January 1947Closed^[1]

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which had no corresponding return journey.^[1] In 1947 all stopping passenger services between Stone and Colwich were withdrawn and Great Haywood along with the neighbouring station, Hixon, closed.^[3]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

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.