Kidsgrove Liverpool Road railway station was the northernmost station on the

Potteries Loop Line The Potteries Loop Line was a railway line that connected Stoke-on-Trent to Mow Cop and Scholar Green via Hanley, Burslem, Tunstall and Kidsgrove. It ran between Staffordshire and Cheshire in England. It served three of the six towns of Stoke ...

and served the town of

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) ...

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...

. It was opened as Kidsgrove in 1875, but renamed in 1944 when the nearby Harecastle station became

Kidsgrove railway station Kidsgrove railway station serves the town of Kidsgrove in Staffordshire, England. The station is north of . The station is served by trains on the Crewe–Derby line which is also a community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. Th ...

. Many of the locals from Kidsgrove who remember Kidsgrove Railway Station can still refer to it as Harecastle as well as Kidsgrove Liverpool Road Station before and after 1944 but also faced the Beeching Report in 1963 which listed it for closure and then closed to passengers in 1964 but the lines would have been remained in use until the electrification of the mainline and then the signal box remained until 1975. 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

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but opposite from Tesco are the Gantries as part of Kidsgrove Railway Station.

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Disused railway stations in Staffordshire Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1875 Former North Staffordshire Railway stations Beeching closures in England Kidsgrove {{WestMidlands-railstation-stub