Penkridge railway station is a railway station serving the village of

Penkridge Penkridge ( ) is a village and civil parish in South Staffordshire, South Staffordshire District in Staffordshire, England. It is to the south of Stafford, north of Wolverhampton, west of Cannock, east of Telford and south-east of Newport, Shro ...

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. It is on the Birmingham loop of the

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. To the north, the line continues towards

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; to the south, the line continues towards the city of

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. The station is operated by

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History

The original station was built by the

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and opened in 1837.

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allowed trains to run across his land on the condition that two trains a day stopped at Penkridge. When closure of the station was proposed in 1962, the incumbent Baron Hatherton threatened to withdraw the right to cross his land if the station was closed. The station buildings appear to have been disused at some point before 1981. Nearby to Penkridge is a former mineral branch line to the nearby village of Huntington. It served a colliery until the 1980s. The trackbed is a footpath from the Wolverhampton Road to Micklewood Lane near Huntington. The rest of the trackbed is now both agricultural and built on at Huntingdon end by a school. The station's two platforms used to be link by a footbridge, but this was removed sometime between 1990 and 2003, replaced by an underpass immediately to the south of the station building.

Services

As of December 2023, Penkridge station is served only by

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services. The usual weekday off-peak service is as follows: Northbound: *1 train per hour (tph) to via , and . Southbound: *1 train per hour to via . Two trains per hour between Liverpool and Birmingham operate during weekday peaks and Saturdays. The station previously had a slightly unusual weekday service pattern, in that there were two trains per hour southbound to Birmingham New Street but only one per hour northbound to Crewe and Liverpool Lime Street.

Withdrawn and suspended services

It was formerly served by services to , but these were withdrawn in December 2019. It was also formerly served by services to via , but these were withdrawn in December 2023 as they were now operating only between Stafford and Crewe instead of Birmingham New Street and Crewe.

Notes

References

Lewis, Roy (1996). ''Staffordshire Railway Stations on old picture postcards'' (reprinted 2002). Nottingham: Reflections of a Bygone Age.

External links

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