Penkridge railway station
Penkridge  | |||||
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 Penkridge station building, 2021 | |||||
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| Location | Penkridge, South Staffordshire England | ||||
| Grid reference | SJ920139 | ||||
| Managed by | London Northwestern Railway | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
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| Station code | PKG | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F1 | ||||
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| 2019/20 |  0.274 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 54,416 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  0.233 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.231 million | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.261 million | ||||
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Penkridge railway station is a railway station serving the village of Penkridge in Staffordshire, England.
It is on the Birmingham loop of the West Coast Main Line. To the north, the line continues towards Stafford; to the south, the line continues towards the city of Wolverhampton. The station is operated by West Midlands Railway.
History
[edit]The original station was built by the Grand Junction Railway and opened in 1837.[1]: 31 Baron Hatherton 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.[2][3] 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,[4] replaced by an underpass immediately to the south of the station building.
Services
[edit]As of December 2023, Penkridge station is served only by West Midlands Trains services.[5][6]
The usual weekday off-peak service is as follows:
Northbound:
- 1 train per hour (tph) to Liverpool Lime Street via Stafford, Crewe and Runcorn.
Southbound:
- 1 train per hour to Birmingham New Street via Wolverhampton.
Two trains per hour between Liverpool and Birmingham operate during weekday peaks and Saturdays.[7]
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.[8][9]
Withdrawn and suspended services
[edit]It was formerly served by services to London Euston, but these were withdrawn in December 2019. It was also formerly served by services to Crewe via Stoke-on-Trent, but these were withdrawn in December 2023 as they were now operating only between Stafford and Crewe instead of Birmingham New Street and Crewe.[10][11]
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Stafford towards Liverpool Lime Street
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London Northwestern Railway Birmingham–Liverpool
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Wolverhampton towards Birmingham New Street
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| Previous services | ||||
| West Midlands Railway Birmingham – Stoke – Crewe | ||||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Stafford | London and North Western Railway former Grand Junction Railway |
Gailey | ||
Notes
[edit]- ^ Drake, James (1838). Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway (1838). Moorland Reprints. ISBN 0903485257.
- ^ "Exhibition Details - Staffordshire Past Track".
- ^ "The rail thing: Penkridge 1986". 11 January 2015.
- ^ "Platform Art - Rail Photography by Adrian Hart | from the Archive".
- ^ "Train timetables and schedules | Penkridge". West Midlands Railway.
- ^ "Train timetables and schedules | Penkridge". London Northwestern Railway.
- ^ "Timetable | Birmingham New Street - Liverpool Lime Street | 10 December 2023 to 1 June 2024". London Northwestern Railway. 10 December 2023.
- ^ GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 68
- ^ GB eNRT May 2019 Edition, Tables 65 & 68
- ^ "Timetable | Crewe to Stafford via Stoke-on-Trent | 21 May 2023 until 9 December 2023". West Midlands Railway.
- ^ "Timetable Change: Sunday 10 December 2023". London Northwestern Railway. Archived from the original on 10 December 2023.
References
[edit]Lewis, Roy (1996). Staffordshire Railway Stations on old picture postcards (reprinted 2002). Nottingham: Reflections of a Bygone Age. ISBN 1-900138-05-0
External links
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- Train times and station information for Penkridge railway station from National Rail
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