Waterloo Road railway station was built by the

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 ...

as part of 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 north of the town of

Hanley Hanley is one of the Federation of Stoke-on-Trent, six towns that, along with Burslem, Longton, Staffordshire, Longton, Fenton, Staffordshire, Fenton, Tunstall, Staffordshire, Tunstall and Stoke-upon-Trent, amalgamated to form the City of Stoke- ...

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, ...

. The station opened in 1900 as it was the last station on the Potteries Loop Line and the first to close to passengers in 1943 at the height of the Second World War until 1966 general goods traffic remained with oil traffic continuing until trains from Walker's Century Oils Now "Fuchs Oil" ceased sending the trains by 1969 and the line was lifted Thus ending over 100 years of the Potteries Loop Line. No trace of the station remains today, the station was at the road crossing on Waterloo Road between Hanley and Cobridge.

References

External links

Waterloo Road page on Potteries.org.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Waterloo Road (NSR) Railway Station Disused railway stations in Stoke-on-Trent Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1943 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1900 Former North Staffordshire Railway stations 1900 establishments in England 1943 disestablishments in England