Trentham Gardens | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Trentham, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent England |
| Coordinates | 52°58′08″N 2°11′47″W / 52.9690°N 2.1963°W |
| Grid reference | SJ867412 |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Original company | North Staffordshire Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway British Railways (London Midland region) |
| Key dates | |
| 28 March 1910 | Opened as Trentham Park[1] |
| September 1927 | closed to regular traffic[1] |
| 7 October 1946 | renamed Trentham Gardens[2] |
| 1 October 1957 | closed[1] |
Trentham Gardens railway station (originally named Trentham Park) was the last station built by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) and was the terminus of the short 1 mile 14 chains (1.18 miles; 1.89 kilometres) Trentham Park branch.[2]
The line was built to serve Trentham Gardens which had recently been opened to the public as pleasure gardens.[3]
Regular passenger traffic on the branch line was withdrawn between 1927 and 1938 although excursion trains ran frequently. In 1938 a regular Sunday service was reintroduced but the outbreak of the Second World War led to the discontinuation of these services.[2]
During the war the Bankers' Clearing House – the arrangement of the clearing banks to exchange cheques – was evacuated from London to Trentham Hall[4] and regular goods trains ran to Trentham Park to deliver supplies. Excursion trains continued throughout the war.[2]
After the war excursion trains continued, and in 1946 the station was renamed Trentham Gardens.[2] The growth in car traffic made the branch line less economic and it closed at the end of 1957[1]
Since closure the site of the station has been built upon and is now a housing estate.
- ^ a b c d Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 386. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.
- ^ a b c d e Jeuda, Basil (2010). The North Staffordshire Railway in LMS days. Vol. 1. Lydney, Gloucestershire: Lightmoor Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-1899889-48-8.
- ^ Christiansen, Rex & Miller, Robert William (1971). The North Staffordshire Railway. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. p. 114. ISBN 0-7153-5121-4.
- ^ Hennessey, Elizabeth (1992). A Domestic History of the Bank of England, 1930-1960. Cambridge University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0521391405.