Rocester railway station was a railway station built by the

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(NSR) located at

Rocester Rocester is a village and civil parish in the East Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England. Its name is spelt ''Rowcestre'' in the Domesday Book. It is located on the Derbyshire border. Geography The village is about north of Utto ...

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History

It was opened in 1849 by the NSR on its Churnet Valley Line between and . Three years later the station became a junction station when the NSR built a branch to via . This was met in 1899 by the

Ashbourne Line The Ashbourne line was a railway from Buxton via Ashbourne to Uttoxeter. It was built by the London and North Western Railway using a section of the Cromford and High Peak Railway (C&HPR) and it joined the North Staffordshire Railway at Ashb ...

from built by the

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.Bentley, J.M., Fox, G.K., (1997) ''Railways of the High Peak: Buxton to Ashbourne (Scenes From The Past series 32),'' Romiley: Foxline Publishing The aim of the LNWR was to run expresses from Buxton to London, as well as gaining access to

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and the

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. In fact the expresses never materialised, being no more than through coaches attached to other trains at Uttoxeter. Even in LMS days when the trains ran through from Buxton to Rocester, they were timetabled as different services which included a "through coach." Passenger services to Ashbourne finished in 1954 and freight ended in 1964. The station closed when the Churnet Valley Line closed in 1965.

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{{Closed stations Staffordshire Disused railway stations in Staffordshire Borough of East Staffordshire Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1849 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1965 Former North Staffordshire Railway stations Beeching closures in England 1849 establishments in England 1965 disestablishments in England