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.

1. History

The present station was opened 9 October 1848 by the North Staffordshire Railway as Harecastle and was during the early years of the North Staffordshire era variously called Harecastle Junction, Kidsgrove Junction. Kidsgrove Junction, Harecastle before settling upon Harecastle in 1875. Between 1885 and 1886 and 1923 and 1924 it was called Harecastle for Kidsgrove. In 1944 it was renamed Kidsgrove. In British Rail days it was known as Kidsgrove Central when the town had three stations, the other two were Kidsgrove Liverpool Road and Market Street Halt on the old North Staffordshire Railway's Potteries Loop Line (all three stations were opened by the North Staffordshire Railway). It is situated on the Manchester branch of the West Coast Main Line at the junction where the line from Stoke-on-Trent divides for Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly. It is just north of the Harecastle Tunnels on the Trent and Mersey Canal and the Harecastle railway tunnel and 1965 railway diversion.

1. Services

Services at Kidsgrove are operated by East Midlands Railway using Class 170 DMUs, London Northwestern Railway using Class 350 EMUs and Northern Trains using Class 323 and 331 EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

2 tph to Crewe 1 tph to Stafford 1 tph to Lincoln via Derby and Nottingham 1 tph to Stoke-on-Trent only 1 tph to Manchester Piccadilly via Macclesfield On Sundays, the station is served by an hourly service between Crewe and Stafford and 6 trains per day between Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent. The first Manchester-bound train on a Sunday extends to Manchester Oxford Road. Hourly Sunday services operate between Crewe and Derby after 14:00 only.

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Train times and station information for Kidsgrove railway station from National Rail

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Kidsgrove

Kidsgrove is a town in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, on the Cheshire border. It is part of the Potteries Urban Area, along with Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme. It has a population of 26,276 (2019 census). Most of the town is in the Kidsgrove ward, whilst the western part is in Ravenscliffe.

Hardings Wood Junction

Hardings Wood Junction (grid reference SJ834546) is a canal junction near Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England and the point at which the Macclesfield Canal (or, historically, the Hall Green Branch) joins the Trent and Mersey Canal. It opened in 1831.

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The King's Church of England Academy

The King's Church of England Academy (formerly Clough Hall Technology School and then The King's Church of England School) is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Kidsgrove in the English county of Staffordshire. Previously a community school administered by Staffordshire County Council, in January 2015 Clough Hall Technology School became a Church of England voluntary aided school and was renamed The King's Church of England School. It was then jointly administered by the Diocese of Lichfield and Staffordshire County Council. A new school building was also constructed. In April 2021 the school converted to academy status and was renamed The King's Church of England Academy. The school is now a founding member of Three Spires Trust. The King's Church of England Academy offers GCSEs, BTECs, OCR Nationals and NVQs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels, further BTECs and NVQs.

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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