Norton Bridge railway station
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| Location | |
| Place | Norton Bridge |
| Area | Borough of Stafford |
| Grid reference | SJ872298 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Grand Junction Railway |
| Pre-grouping | London & North Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland & Scottish Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Annual rail passenger usage | |
| 2002/03 * |
 4,793 |
| 2004/05 * |
2,080 |
| 2005/06 * |
585 |
| 2006/07 * |
341 |
| History | |
| 4 July 1837 | First station opened |
| 14 October 1876 | Station resited |
| 24 May 2004 (last trains Sat 22 May 2004) | Services Withdrawn |
| 10 December 2017 | Formally closed |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| * Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Norton Bridge from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year. | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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Norton Bridge railway station was a railway station located four miles north-west of Stafford on the West Coast Main Line (WCML) near the village of Norton Bridge, Staffordshire, England.
The station was opened by the Grand Junction Railway in 1837. No services had called at it since 2004. The station formally closed in 2017.
The main line platforms were removed before electrification in the 1960s when the current island platform was built for Manchester via Stoke-on-Trent services. Passenger services ceased in May 2004 when Central Trains services between Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent were withdrawn and replaced by BakerBus route X1. At December 2004 the footbridge was removed in order to improve freight clearances.
From 2007, the Office of Rail Regulation did not include it in its station usage figures.
The nearby junction between the Crewe and Stoke routes is an important one on the West Coast Main Line, as such during the 1960s modernisation of the line, the junction and some of the surrounding main lines were placed under the control of a new power signal box built to a similar design to that still standing at Wolverhampton. The Norton Bridge signal box was notable for its use of an experimental Westinghouse solid-state interlocking system for some years, later being converted to a conventional relay-based interlocking; this signal box features briefly in the British Transport Films production Thirty Million Letters. It closed altogether in 2004, control passing instead to the signal control centre at Stoke-on-Trent, although the lower storey still remains in situ as a relay room.
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