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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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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Hall Green Branch

The Hall Green Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal is a canal in east Cheshire, England. It runs for one mile from Kidsgrove to Hall Green, where it makes an end-on junction with the Macclesfield Canal at Hall Green Stop Lock.

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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.

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.