Grindley railway station was a former British

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

to serve the village of Grindley in

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. It was opened by the

Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway The Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway was authorised by an act of Parliament on 29 July 1862,Donald J Grant, Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain, Matador, Kibworth Beauchamp, 2017, ISBN 978 1785893 537, pages 532 and 533 to build a ...

in 1867 and closed in 1939. The

was purchased for £100,000 by the Great Northern Railway in July 1881 and the line subsequently passed into

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ownership with Railway Grouping in 1923. Originally single line, a passing loop was added in 1887. Built in a cutting, the main station buildings were next to the road above, with the booking office on the main platform. Like most of the others on the line, the platforms were staggered, both accessible by cart tracks.Jones P (1981) ''The Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway,'' Salisbury: The Oakwood Press Two miles further north the single line entered Bromshall Tunnel before reaching its junction with

North Staffordshire Railway The North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) was a Great Britain, British railway company formed in 1845 to promote a number of lines in the Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Potteries and surrounding areas in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Shro ...

line to Uttoxeter.

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