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Place
  
Kidsgrove

Station code
  
KDG

DfT category
  
E

Number of platforms
  
4

Grid reference
  
SJ837543

Managed by
  
East Midlands Trains

2011/12
  
158,478

Kidsgrove railway station

Address
  
Kidsgrove, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Local authority
  
Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme

Similar
  
Alsager railway station, Longton railway station, Congleton railway station, Holmes Chapel railway st, Sandbach railway station

Kidsgrove railway station


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).

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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).

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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. Between 1885/6 and 1923/4 it was called Harecastle for Kidsgrove. 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

    • Platform 2

  • Hourly Northern service to Manchester Piccadilly calling at Congleton, Macclesfield, Prestbury, Adlington, Poynton, Bramhall, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Heaton Chapel and Levenshulme

    • 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)
  • Hourly London Midland 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.

    • Platform 4

  • Hourly East Midlands Trains service to Crewe calling at Alsager
  • Hourly London Midland service to Crewe calling at Alsager

    • No services operated by Virgin Trains or CrossCountry call at Kidsgrove.

    References

    Kidsgrove railway station Wikipedia
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