Blythe Bridge railway station

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Blythe Bridge
An East Midlands Railway Class 170 DMU arriving at Blythe Bridge railway station in December 2020
General information
Location	Blythe Bridge, Staffordshire Moorlands England
Grid reference	SJ956411
Managed by	East Midlands Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BYB
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	North Staffordshire Railway
Pre-grouping	North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
7 August 1848	Opened as "Blyth Bridge"[1]
1907	Renamed "Blythe Bridge"[2]
Passengers
2019/20	91,124
2020/21	26,082
2021/22	70,590
2022/23	72,300
2023/24	77,568
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Blythe Bridge railway station in Blythe Bridge, Staffordshire, England, is served by trains on the Crewe to Derby Line; it is also a Community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway. The full range of tickets for travel are purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost.

The station was opened on 7 August 1848 by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR). Until 1907 the spelling of the station name was Blyth Bridge.^[1] The station buildings were demolished in the early 1990s and today it is unstaffed.

In 2010 it won East Midlands Trains' Best Small Station award.^[3]