Market Street Halt railway station

Market Street Halt was a halt that served the town of Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England. It was opened in 1909 and located on the Potteries Loop Line of the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR). At first it was used by trains in both directions but was later served only by northbound trains due to the severe gradient, being a 1 in 40 climb southbound. Although only a halt, it had a considerable length of platform and modest wooden buildings, plus an old NSR carriage used as a waiting room. Like the first Loop Line station Waterloo Road which closed to passengers in 1943 and 1966-69 to goods and oil traffic Kidsgrove Market Street Halt itself the second Loop Line Station closed in 1950 to passengers and goods until the Birchenwood factory closed in 1973 and Park Farm from Newchapel and Goldenhill closed in 1976 and then the line was lifted by 1977 and the trackbed is now part of the Potteries Greenway.

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Kidsgrove Town Hall

Kidsgrove Town Hall is a municipal building in Liverpool Road in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England. The building, which is the meeting place of Kidsgrove Town Council, is locally listed.

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Kidsgrove Urban District

Kidsgrove Urban District was an urban district in the county of Staffordshire. It was formed in 1894 with the civil parishes of Hardings Wood, Kidsgrove, Newchapel and Talke. It was abolished in 1974, by virtue of the Local Government Act 1972, when it was absorbed into the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

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Kidsgrove railway station

Kidsgrove railway station serves the town of Kidsgrove in Staffordshire, England. The station is 7.5 miles (12.07 km) north of Stoke-on-Trent. The station is served by trains on the Crewe–Derby line which 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.

Kidsgrove Liverpool Road railway station

Kidsgrove Liverpool Road railway station was the northernmost station on the Potteries Loop Line and served the town of Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. It was opened as Kidsgrove in 1875, but renamed in 1944 when the nearby Harecastle station became Kidsgrove railway station. Many of the locals from Kidsgrove who remember Kidsgrove station can still refer to it as Harecastle as well as Kidsgrove Liverpool Road Station before and after 1944. Under the Beeching Report in 1963 it was listed it for closure and then closed to passengers in 1964 but the lines which remained in use until the electrification of the mainline and then the signal box closed in 1975 as well as Park Farm near to where the former Newchapel and Goldenhill station was by 1976. Unlike the Mainline which will go from Kidsgrove to Macclesfield or onwards to Manchester and Liverpool, the site of Kidsgrove Liverpool Road Station is now occupied by a Tesco supermarket; opposite from Tesco are the Gantries that are part of Kidsgrove Railway Station.

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