Stone railway station
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Stone railway station serves the market town of Stone, in Staffordshire, England. It is located on a junction of the Colwich to Manchester spur of the West Coast Main Line, but has platforms only on the branch from Template:Rws to Template:Rws.
History
There have been two stations at Stone and both were opened by the North Staffordshire Railway.[1] The first opened on 17 April 1848[1] and was next to the Newcastle Road bridge. With the opening of the Colwich line on 1 May 1849, the original station was closed and replaced the same day by the current station.[1] The station was renamed Stone Junction in January 1888, but reverted to the original name Stone at some point between 1923 and 1947.[1] The Colwich platforms were closed in 1947 and subsequently removed.
The station building has been redeveloped by Stone Town Council as a community centre.[2]
APTIS ticketing here ceased in 1993, when the station became unstaffed.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Service withdrawal and reinstatement
In 2004, rail services were withdrawn from the station and were replaced by buses, operated by BakerBus; this was initially whilst upgrade work was carried out on the Stafford and Colwich to Template:Rws lines. However, the Stafford to Stoke local service, that formerly called here, was never reinstated once the work was completed; the units used on it were redeployed in the West Midlands and so the rail replacement service continued. The Trent Valley local service, between Stafford and Template:Rws, also suffered the same fate.
Virgin CrossCountry were reportedly going to reinstate Stone as a stop from June 2006 on the Birmingham to Manchester service, but this never materialised.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In December 2008, Stone station reopened for an hourly train service between Template:Rws and London Euston, as part of a new revamped West Coast Main Line timetable unveiled by the Department for Transport.[3]Script error: No such module "Unsubst". This service was operated by London Midland and then London Northwestern Railway, until its withdrawal.[4]
Former services
The new West Midlands franchise saw the former Euston to Crewe trains replaced by a new Birmingham–Wolverhampton–Stoke–Crewe service that stopped here.[5] The London service was changed to one via Birmingham, despite opposition against losing a direct link to London.
The Birmingham service was cut back in December 2023 to start at Stafford, with Stone losing its direct links to Birmingham and Template:Rws.[6][7]
Service
Stone is currently served by the hourly London Northwestern Railway services that operate in both directions between Template:Stnlink and Crewe, via Template:Stnlink, Template:Rws, Template:Rws and Template:Rws.[8]
Trains operated by CrossCountry and Avanti West Coast pass through the station, but do not stop here.
Gallery
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Looking south, with the line to Colwich Junction to the left and Norton Bridge to the right
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A CrossCountry Class 220 Voyager unit heading north towards Stoke-on-Trent
See also
References
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Further reading
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External links
- "No 6 - Stone Railway Station", Neville Malkin's "Grand Tour" of the Potteries, retrieved Feb 2017 - has several old pictures, drawings and historical narrative
- Train times and station information for Stone railway station from National Rail
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- Stone, Staffordshire
- Railway stations in Staffordshire
- DfT Category F2 stations
- Former North Staffordshire Railway stations
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
- Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1849
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1849
- Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains
- Grade II listed railway stations
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