Tutbury and Hatton Station is a railway station in England, served by trains on the
Crewe to Derby Line
Crewe () is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The Crewe built-up area had a total population of 75,556 in 2011, which also covers parts of the adjacent civil parishes of Willaston, ...
, which is a
Community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. The station is owned by
Network Rail
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and managed by
East Midlands Railway.
History
The original station, called simply Tutbury, was opened on 11 September 1848 by the
North Staffordshire Railway
The North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) was a British railway company formed in 1845 to promote a number of lines in the Staffordshire Potteries and surrounding areas in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Shropshire.
The company was based ...
.
Nestlé
Nestlé S.A. (; ; ) is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest publicly held food company in the world, measured by revenue and other metrics, since ...
have a historical presence in the village of Hatton due to the surrounding farmland, which supported a strong
dairy farming
Dairy farming is a class of agriculture for long-term production of milk, which is processed (either on the farm or at a dairy plant, either of which may be called a dairy) for eventual sale of a dairy product. Dairy farming has a history th ...
industry. Nestlé's factory is labelled by the company as their Tutbury factory. Until the late 1970s the factory had its own private siding, which gave access to
milk trains from the station. The factory since has developed into a major coffee producer, the sole UK facility producing the Dolce Gusto range, and also Nescafé
NESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto
The original Tutbury station closed to passengers on 7 November 1966.
The present station was opened in 1989 and serves the villages of Tutbury in Staffordshire, and Hatton, Derbyshire, Hatton in Derbyshire.
Facilities
The station is formed of two platforms which are staggered either side of the level crossing, supervised by a
signal box at the station.
The station is unstaffed and facilities are limited. The station has a shelter on each platform as well modern
help points and
bicycle storage. The station has no
ticket machines
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and the full range of tickets can be purchased from the
guard on board the train.
Step-free access is available to both the platforms at the station.
Services
All services at Tutbury and Hatton are operated by
East Midlands Railway.
On weekdays and Saturdays, the station is generally served by an hourly service westbound to via and eastbound to via and .
During the late evenings, services terminate at Nottingham instead of Newark Castle.
On Sundays, the station is served by an hourly service between Crewe and Derby only although no trains operate before 14:00.
References
Further reading
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External links
www.burton-on-trent.org.uk/station-history
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Railway stations in Derbyshire
DfT Category F2 stations
Former North Staffordshire Railway stations
1848 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1989
Reopened railway stations in Great Britain
Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway