Stafford railway station

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Stafford
Location
Place	Stafford
Local authority	Stafford
Operations
Managed by	Virgin Trains
Platforms in use	5
Annual Passenger Usage
2004/05 **	1.016 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.

As of January 2007, the station's visual display units are undergoing an upgrade.

[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

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Stafford railway station from National Rail
• Street map and aerial photo of Stafford railway station from Multimap.com

West Coast Main Line

Legend Edinburgh Waverley for ECML Haymarket Glasgow Central     for SPT Network Motherwell for SPT Network Carstairs for SPT Network Carstairs South Junction Lockerbie Carlisle for Tyne Valley Line,    Cumbrian Coast Line and    Glasgow South Western Line Penrith Oxenholme Lake District     for Windermere Line Lancaster Preston Wigan North Western Bolton Warrington Bank Quay Liverpool Lime Street Runcorn Weaver Junction Manchester Piccadilly Stockport Cheadle Hulme Junction Crewe North Junction Crewe Stoke-on-Trent Stone Junction Norton Bridge Junction Stafford Colwich Junction Lichfield Trent Valley Wolverhampton Tamworth Birmingham New Street Nuneaton Coventry Rugby for Birmingham Loop Northampton Milton Keynes Central Watford Junction London Euston

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

Coordinates: 52.80359° N 2.12307° W