Stafford railway station

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Stafford
Location
Place Stafford
Local authority Stafford
Operations
Managed by Virgin Trains
Platforms in use 5
Annual entry/exit 02/03 0.483 million *
History
Key dates Opened July 1837
Rebuilt 1844
Rebuilt 1862
Current building opened 1962
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Stafford railway station (Ordnance Survey grid reference SJ918229) is an important main line interchange station in the United Kingdom. It serves the county town of Stafford.

From the south, two branches of the West Coast Main Line meet here; the Trent Valley branch and the Birmingham branch. To the north, the trunk of the line continues towards Crewe, whilst the Manchester branch goes on to Stoke-on-Trent.

[edit] History

The first station was built by the Grand Junction Railway and opened in July 1837. It soon became inadequate and was replaced by a second station in 1844. A third station was built in 1862 which was eventually replaced by the current concrete brutalist building in 1962, built as part of the modernisation programme which saw the electrification of the West Coast Main Line.

Lines originally built by the Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway and the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company (to Shrewsbury) also used the station up to the 1960s.

[edit] References

Lewis, Roy (1996). Staffordshire Railway Stations on old picture postcards (reprinted 2002). Nottingham: Reflections of a Bygone Age. ISBN 1-900138-05-0

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West Coast Main Line
Principal stations
(from south to north)

London Euston
Watford Junction
Milton Keynes Central
Rugby (for Birmingham Loop)
Nuneaton
Tamworth
Lichfield Trent Valley
Stafford
Crewe then

Manchester Piccadilly or
Liverpool Lime Street

Warrington Bank Quay
Wigan North Western
Preston
Lancaster
Oxenholme Lake District
Penrith North Lakes
Carlisle
Lockerbie
Carstairs Junction then
Motherwell and
Glasgow Central or
Haymarketand
Edinburgh Waverley (for East Coast Main Line)
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Lichfield Trent Valley
or
Wolverhampton		   Virgin Trains
West Coast Main Line		   Crewe
or
Stoke-on-Trent
Penkridge   Central Trains
Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford Line
West Coast Main Line		   Crewe
Terminus   Central Trains
Stafford to Manchester Line		   Norton Bridge
Rugeley Trent Valley   Central Trains
Chase Line		   Terminus
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