A very enjoyable morning session spent at Stoke on Trent on the West Coast Mainline where we see plenty of services from London Northwestern Railway, Avanti West Coast, Cross Country, Northern and East Midlands Railway.
The station was opened in October 1848 and was designed in typical Victorian fashion. There was a hotel built at the station called the North Stafford Hotel. The station was built and opened by the North Staffordshire Railway Company, until 1923 the station housed the company boardroom and principle office.
The station is a shadow of its former self, once upon a time the station had links to: Leek via the Biddulph Valley Line, Cheadle to Market Drayton via Newcastle-under-Lyme and Silverdale in Staffordshire and was the terminus of the Potteries Loop Line. These were all closed throughout the 1950s and the 1960s for passenger traffic, freight traffic was kept in operation on the line to Leek for sand and stone traffic until that ceased operating in the 1980s. There was once a through line between platforms 1 & 2, although I'm not to sure as to when this was removed.
This was my first time back here in God knows how many years and despite the wind trying to muscle it's way in it was very enjoyable, I will make more of an effort to come back here as this is a great station to come to.
My next station will be Crewe which I can assure you, you won't want to miss it as it is a cracking film that I have managed to get put together which will be released later in the week.
If you have any trackside locations or stations you would like to see me go to then please do let me know and I will see what I can do for you.
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5 мар 2022
