Rushton railway station

Coordinates: 53°09′33″N 2°05′51″W / 53.1593°N 2.0974°W

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Rushton
The former Rushton station in 2012 (now a private residence)
General information
Location	Rushton Spencer, Staffordshire, Staffordshire Moorlands England
Coordinates	53°09′33″N 2°05′51″W / 53.1593°N 2.0974°W / 53.1593; -2.0974
Grid reference	SJ935624
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 September 1849 (1849-09-01)	Opened^[1]
7 November 1960	Closed to passengers^[1]
15 June 1964	Closed to freight

Rushton Spencer railway station was a railway station that served the village of Rushton Spencer, Staffordshire. The station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1849 as part of the Churnet Valley line.^[2]

It remained open until passenger services were withdrawn from the northern end of the Churnet valley line (North Rode – Leek) in 1960.^[3] Freight services lasted until 1964 when they too were withdrawn^[3] and the track lifted. Today the trackbed forms part of the Staffordshire Way.

Route

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Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Bosley Line and station closed		North Staffordshire Railway Churnet Valley Line		Cliffe Park Line and station closed

Notes

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^ ^a ^b Quick 2009, p. 337.
^ Jeuda 1999, p. 55.
^ ^a ^b Christiansen & Miller 1971, p. 304.

References

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Christiansen, Rex; Miller, Robert William (1971). The North Staffordshire Railway. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5121-4.
Jeuda, Basil (1999). The Churnet Valley Railway. Lydney, Gloucestershire: Lightmoor Press. ISBN 1-899889-05-1.
Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.

Closed railway stations in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent

Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway

Barton and Walton

Grand Junction Railway

Great Western Railway

Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway

London, Midland and Scottish Railway

Cold Meece

London and North Western Railway

Armitage

Midland Railway

North Staffordshire Railway

Audley branch	Audley and Bignall End Halmerend Keele Leycett
Biddulph Valley	Biddulph Black Bull Bucknall and Northwood Chell Halt Fenton Manor Ford Green & Smallthorne Knypersley Halt Mossley Halt
Cheadle branch	Cheadle Tean
Churnet Valley	Alton Towers Cliffe Park Denstone Leek Leek Brook Oakamoor Rocester Rudyard Rushton
Crewe to Derby	Bromshall Carter's Crossing Halt Chatterley Cresswell Etruria Fenton Leigh Marchington Meir Normacot Sudbury
Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension	Horninglow Rolleston-on-Dove Stretton and Claymills
Potteries Loop	Burslem Cobridge Etruria Hanley Kidsgrove Liverpool Road Market Street Halt Newchapel and Goldenhill Pitts Hill Tunstall Waterloo Road
Stoke to Leek	Endon Fenton Manor Leek Leek Brook Milton Stockton Brook Wall Grange
Stoke to Market Drayton	Brampton Halt Crown Street Halt Hartshill and Basford Halt Keele Keele Park Knutton Halt Liverpool Road Halt Madeley Road Newcastle-under-Lyme Silverdale
Stoke to Stafford	Mount Pleasant Halt Norton Bridge Sideway Halt Whieldon Road Halt
Stone to Colwich	Aston-by-Stone Great Haywood Hixon Sandon Weston and Ingestre
Trentham Park branch	Hanford Road Halt Trentham Gardens Trentham
Waterhouses branch	Bradnop Caldon Low Halt Ipstones Waterhouses Winkhill