Stockton Brook railway station
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Stockton Brook | |||||
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 Station in 2009 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire England | ||||
| Coordinates | 53°03′56″N 2°07′22″W / 53.0656°N 2.1228°W | ||||
| Grid reference | SJ918520 | ||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Small business | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | North Staffordshire Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 1 July 1896 | Opened[1] | ||||
| 7 May 1956 | Closed[1] | ||||
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Stockton Brook railway station is a disused railway station in Staffordshire.
The Stoke–Leek line was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) in 1867[2] but it was not until 1896 that a station to serve the village of Stockton Brook was built. Situated on the single-track section of the line between Milton Junction (where the line diverged from the Biddulph Valley line) and Endon, the station had only a single platform situated in a shallow cutting. The station buildings were at street level. During the LMS period the station was known as Stockton Brook for Brown Edge.[3]
Passenger services over the line were withdrawn in 1956 and the station closed. The station buildings remain in existence and are now a shop. The line through the station continued in use until 1988 for freight services and since then the line has officially been out of use but not closed.
