Area Stoke-on-Trent Platforms in use 2 | Grid reference SJ867412 | |
Place Trentham, Staffordshire Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
British Railways (London Midland region) 28 March 1910 Opened as Trentham Park September 1927 closed to regular traffic Original company North Staffordshire Railway | ||
Trentham Gardens railway station (originally named Trentham Park) was the last station built by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) and was the terminus of the short 1 mile 14 chains (1.89 km) Trentham Park branch.
The line was built to serve Trentham Gardens which had recently donated to the County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent by the 4th Duke of Sutherland.
Regular passenger traffic on the branch line was withdrawn between 1927 and 1938 although excursion trains ran frequently. In 1938 a regular Sunday service was reintroduced but the outbreak of the Second World War led to the discontinuation of these services.
During the war the Central Clearing House of the Bank of England was evacuated from London to Trentham Hall and regular goods trains ran to Trentham Park to deliver supplies and excursion trains continued throughout the war.
After the war excursion trains resumed and in 1946 the station was renamed Trentham Gardens. The growth in car traffic made the branch line less economic and it closed at the end of 1957