Salt and Sandon railway station

Salt and Sandon railway station was a former British railway station opened by the Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway to serve the village of Salt in Staffordshire in 1867.[2]

Salt and Sandon
Location
Place	Salt
Area	Stafford
Coordinates	52.8472°N 2.0654°W / 52.8472; -2.0654
Grid reference	SJ956277
Operations
Original company	Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
23 December 1867	Station opened
4 December 1939	Station 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

Until 1904 it was known simply as "Salt" the name being changed to avoid confusion with Sandon and Salt station on the North Staffordshire Railway. Sandon was actually about two miles away, the station being nearer to Sandon Bank.

The Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway was purchased for £100,000 by the Great Northern Railway in July 1881 and the line subsequently passed into LNER ownership with Railway Grouping in 1923.

From Salt the line turned sharply south east towards Ingestre, before passing under the North Staffordshire Railway's main line from Stone to Colwich.

Passenger services finished in 1939.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Stafford Common Line and station closed		Great Northern Railway Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway		Ingestre Line and station closed

References

1. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
2. Jones P (1981) The Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway, Salisbury: The Oakwood Press

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2016). Derby to Stoke-on-Trent. West Sussex: Middleton Press. fig. 90. ISBN 9781908174932. OCLC 954271104.