Blythe Bridge railway station
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| Location | |
| Place | Blythe Bridge |
| Local authority | Staffordshire Moorlands |
| Grid reference | SJ956411 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BYB |
| Managed by | East Midlands Trains |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2010/11 |  60,162 |
| 2011/12 | 64,000 |
| 2012/13 |  60,632 |
| 2013/14 | 68,444 |
| 2014/15 | 78,470 |
| History | |
| Original company | North Staffordshire Railway |
| Pre-grouping | North Staffordshire Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| 7 August 1848 | Opened[1] |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
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| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Blythe Bridge from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal |
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Blythe Bridge railway station is a railway station in England at Blythe Bridge, Staffordshire Moorlands. The station is served by trains on the Crewe to Derby Line which is also a Community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Trains (EMT) Train Operating Company (TOC). The full range of tickets for travel are purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost.
The station was opened on 7 August 1848 by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR). Until 1907 the spelling of the station name was Blyth Bridge.[1] The station buildings were demolished in the early 1990s and today it is unstaffed.
In 2010 it won East Midlands Trains 'Best Small Station' award.[2]
Signalling
Blythe Bridge had at one time two signal boxes, Blythe Bridge and Stallington, both of which controlled level crossings, which was a common feature across the former NSR.
Blythe Bridge signal box was opened by the NSR in 1884 on their Derby to Stoke line. The box was built to a standard McKenzie & Holland design and under the S.R.S. designation system is referred to as a MKH Type1.
The signal box was equipped with a standard McKenzie & Holland lever frame and a gate wheel for operating the level crossing gates which controlled traffic on the busy former A50. These gates were later replaced by a barrier crossing when traffic got too heavy for the signalman.
Blythe Bridge signal box finally closed in 1980 and the level crossing was converted to CCTV control with the barriers supervised by Caverswall signal box.
Services
An hourly service operates in each direction, to Derby eastbound and to Stoke & Crewe westbound. Sunday trains only operate from 15:00 onwards.[3]
Foxfield Railway
The station is situated Lua error in Module:Convert at line 452: attempt to index field 'titles' (a nil value). south of Caverswall Road railway station, the current southern terminus of the Foxfield Railway.
References
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Blythe Bridge railway station. |
- Train times and station information for Blythe Bridge railway station from National Rail
- Page with more info on the station
- Railways in Draycott
- Photographs of the old station buildings
- Photograph of Blythe Bridge Signal Box
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North Staffordshire Railway |
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- Railway stations opened in 1848
- Railway stations served by East Midlands Trains
