Colwich railway station

Colwich railway station is a disused railway station in Staffordshire, England.

Colwich
The site of Colwich station in 1986
Location
Place	Stafford
Area	Staffordshire
Coordinates	52.7886°N 1.9868°W / 52.7886; -1.9868
Grid reference	SK009212
Operations
Original company	Trent Valley Railway
Pre-grouping	London & North Western Railway North Staffordshire Railway
History
15 September 1847	Opened[1]
3 February 1958	Closed[1]
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

Authorisation for a railway line between Rugby and Stafford was obtained in 1845 by the Trent Valley Railway. By 1847, the Trent Valley Railway company had been incorporated in the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) and the line was opened.[2] A station opened at Colwich in September of that year and, like most of the stations on the Trent Valley Railway, it was designed by the architect John William Livock.[3]

In 1849, the railway line between Stone and Colwich was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR).[4] At Colwich, the LNWR and NSR agreed to own and operate the station jointly;[5] a situation that remained until both railways became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.

Local passenger services over the former NSR route were withdrawn in 1947[5] and all other services were withdrawn from Colwich in 1958, when the station was closed.[1]

The former stationmaster's house remains and is now a Grade II listed building.[6]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Milford and Brocton Line open, station closed		London & North Western Railway Trent Valley Line		Rugeley Trent Valley Line open, station open
Great Haywood Line open, station closed		North Staffordshire Railway Stone to Colwich Line		Terminus

See also

• Colwich rail crash, which took place at the site of the station in 1986.

References

Notes

1. Quick (2009), p. 132.
2. Hackwood (1925), p. 99.
3. Anderson & Fox (1981), p. 98.
4. Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 299.
5. Jeuda (2010), p. 91.
6. Historic England. "Former railway station house (1116586)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 November 2014.

Sources

• Anderson, Roy Claude & Fox, Gregory (1981). A pictorial record of L.M.S. architecture. Oxford. ISBN 978-0860930-83-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Christiansen, Rex & Miller, Robert William (1971). The North Staffordshire Railway. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5121- 4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Hackwood, Frederick Willam (1925). Glimpses of bygone Staffordshire. Mercury.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Jeuda, Basil (2010). The North Staffordshire Railway in LMS days. 1. Lydney, Gloucestershire: Lightmoor Press. ISBN 978-1899889-48-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2016). Rugeley to Stoke-on-Trent. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 9-15. ISBN 9781908174901. OCLC 972169395.