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Meir railway station

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Place
  
Meir, Staffordshire

Grid reference
  
SJ935421

Platforms in use
  
2

Area
  
Stoke-on-Trent

12 May 1894
  
Opened

Pre-grouping
  
North Staffordshire Railway

Post-grouping
  
London, Midland and Scottish Railway London Midland Region of British Railways

Meir railway station was a station that served the Meir area of Stoke-on-Trent, England. It was opened in 1894 by the North Staffordshire Railway on its line to Derby and was situated in a cutting to the east of Meir tunnel.

The station closed in 1966 with hardly any evidence of its existence left today apart from the foot print of the buildings which are covered in vegitation. The building was of timber construction which had a booking office with cast iron coal burning stove, a waiting room that had benched seating, a small store room for cleaning and bike storage, and a "Elsan" bucket type toilet that was normally emptied by the Junior Porter in a dug out hole in the small wooded area to the rear of the building. There was a wooden shelter in the middle of the downside platform, and on the eastern end stood the coal shed made of sleepers complete with chute from the bridge for road vehicle delivery.

References

Meir railway station Wikipedia