Tean railway station

Tean railway station was a railway station located on the Cheadle Branch Line at Totmonslow, Staffordshire. It was opened as Totmonslow in 1892 and was the terminus of the line until it reached Cheadle in 1901.[1]

Tean
The remains of Tean railway station, December 2008
Location
Place	Totmonslow, Staffordshire
Area	Staffordshire Moorlands
Coordinates	52.9545°N 2.0093°W / 52.9545; -2.0093
Grid reference	SJ994397
Operations
Original company	North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Platforms	1
History
7 November 1892	Opened as Totmonslow
December 1906	Renamed to Tean
1 June 1953	Closed
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

Facilities

The station was located in a cutting underneath the Stoke to Uttoxeter turnpike road and had a small goods siding with shed. Because of the restricted location, a loop was provided a short distance to the south, although it was never actually used a such and was removed in 1938.[1]

A platform shelter was the only building until 1907, when part of the station building from Keele Park railway station was erected, the latter having closed earlier that year. Up until this point, a nearby cottage was used as a booking office.[1]

Later years

The station was renamed in 1906 after the village of Upper Tean, which was located around a mile east of Totmonslow. It was never well used and closed in 1953, having by then been reduced to a halt. The goods siding was soon removed and the station site occupied by a scrap merchant until 1977.[1]

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Cresswell Line and station closed		North Staffordshire Railway Cheadle Branch Line		Cheadle Line and station closed

The site today

The track was removed in 2013. The platform remains, although overgrown, and can be seen from the adjacent road bridge.[2]

References

1. Baker, Allan C. (1979). The Cheadle Railway. The Oakwood Press. ISBN 085361248X.
2. Ballantyne, Hugh (2005). British Railways Past & Present: North Staffordshire and the Trent Valley. Past & Present Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1858952042.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2016). Derby to Stoke-on-Trent. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 103-105. ISBN 9781908174932. OCLC 954271104.