Madeley Road railway station

Madeley Road railway station is a disused railway station in Staffordshire, England.

Madeley Road
Location
Place	Newcastle-under-Lyme
Area	Staffordshire
Coordinates	52.9771°N 2.3344°W / 52.9771; -2.3344
Grid reference	SJ776422
Operations
Original company	North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland & Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
October 1870	Opened as Madeley[1]
May 1871	Renamed Madeley Manor[1]
August 1871	Renamed Madeley Road
20 July 1931	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

The Stoke to Market Drayton Line was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) in 1870.[2] A station called simply Madeley was opened on the line in the same year. Within a few months; possibly to avoid confusion with the LNWR station that was, at least, on the edge of Madeley; the station was renamed Madeley Manor after the nearby, abandoned house of that name. By August 1871 the name had been changed yet again to Madeley Road.[1]

The station had no goods facilities and due to its rural location passenger use was low and in 1931 the London, Midland and Scottish Railway closed the station.[3] An indication of how little usage the station received is shown by the LMS estimate that only £92 per year was saved by closure of the station.[3]

The line through the station remained in use until the closure of Silverdale Colliery in 1998.

Present day

Madeley Road still has track in situ and is out of use.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Keele Line closed, station closed		North Staffordshire Railway Stoke to Market Drayton Line		Pipe Gate Line closed, station closed

References

Notes

1. Quick (2009), p. 263.
2. Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 300.
3. Jeuda (2010), p. 136.

Sources

• 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)
• 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 (2014). Branch Lines around Market Drayton. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 93-95. ISBN 9781908174673. OCLC 913791564.