Bromshall railway station

Bromshall railway station was a short lived railway station in Staffordshire, England.

Bromshall
Level crossing near the former station
Location
Place	Uttoxeter
Area	Staffordshire
Coordinates	52.8960°N 1.9204°W / 52.8960; -1.9204
Grid reference	SK054331
Operations
Original company	North Staffordshire Railway
History
7 August 1848	Opened[1]
31 December 1865	Closed to passengers[2]
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 railway line between Stoke-on-Trent and Uttoxeter was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) in 1848[3] and a station to serve the village of Bramshall (also known as Bromshall) was opened at the same time.

The station was never heavily used and after only 17 years the NSR withdrew the passenger service on the last day of 1865 although the goods facilities were retained. In 1942 an ordnance storage depot was constructed nearby and new sidings laid to enable munitions produced at Cold Meece ordnance factory to be moved to Bromshall depot by rail. Between May and September 1942 a temporary station called Bromshall Crossing was opened on the site to allow construction workers to travel to and from work.[4]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Leigh Line open, station closed		North Staffordshire Railway Crewe to Derby Line		Uttoxeter Line open, station open

References

Notes

1. Quick (2009), p. 102.
2. Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 306.
3. Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 299.
4. Jeuda (2012), p. 129.

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 (2012). The North Staffordshire Railway in LMS days. 2. Lydney, Gloucestershire: Lightmoor Press. ISBN 978-1899889-65-5.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). Derby to Stoke-on-Trent. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 40-41. ISBN 9781908174932. OCLC 954271104.