Place Cauldon, Staffordshire 1 July 1905 Opened | Grid reference SK073495 Platforms in use 1 | |
Area Staffordshire Moorlands Pre-grouping North Staffordshire Railway Post-grouping London Midland and Scottish Railway Similar Leek Brook railway station, Kingsley and Froghall r, Churnet Valley Railway, Stafford railway station | ||
Caldon Lowe Halt railway station was a railway station close to the hamlet of Cauldon, Staffordshire. It was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) in 1905 and closed in 1935.
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Construction and opening
The station was on the NSR Waterhouses branch line from Leekbrook Junction to Waterhouses. The single line branch was authorised on 1 March 1899 by the Leek, Caldon Low, and Hartington Light Railways Order, 1898. and construction took until 1905.
Station layout
The station was solely for the use of workmen from the nearby Caldon Low quarries, and their families. There were no goods facilities, just a single wooden platform for passengers with an old coach body to act as an waiting room. The halt a request stop and was unstaffed with passengers paying for their tickets at their destination. The only exception to this was on Leek market days when a porter from Waterhouses would walk to Caldon Low to issue tickets.
Closure
The branch line was never a financial success and the halt closed on 30 September 1935 when passenger services on the line were withdrawn.