Disused railway lines and closed stations in Staffordshire

256 miles of disused railway
110 closed stations
22 stations open today
85 named lost lines

Staffordshire has 256 miles of disused railway and 110 closed stations, against 22 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 5.0 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Churnet Valley Line, with 17 miles of its route inside Staffordshire.

See Staffordshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 256 miles of lost railway in Staffordshire break down as 172 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 59 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 24 miles with track still in place but no trains and 0.9 miles dismantled. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Staffordshire

85 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Staffordshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Churnet Valley Line	17
Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway	13
Stafford to Shrewsbury Line	9.1
Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway	8.1
Waterhouses Branch	7.7
Biddulph Valley Line	7.1
Potteries Loop Line	7.0
Audley Line	6.2
Stoke-on-Trent to Caldon Low Branch	5.3
Brownhills Line	4.9
Stoke to Market Drayton Line	4.3
Littleton Colliery Branch	4.0
McClean Way	4.0
Froghall Branch	4.0
Royal Army Ordnance Corp Marchington	4.0
Cheadle Branch Line	3.9
Norton Branch	3.9
Newcastle-under-Lyme Branch	3.9
Adderley Green Branch	3.7
Hilton Main Colliery	2.9
Waterhouses Branch (Leek Brook Junction to Caldon Low)	2.8
Berry Hill Sidings	2.7
Firmstone's Railway	2.7
West Coast Main Line	2.5
Florence Colliery Railway	2.4
Kingswinford Railway Walk	2.3
Apedale Colliery	2.2
Cannock Chase Line	2.2
Cheadle Branch Line Deviation	2.2
Shobnall Branch	2.2
Amington and Glascote Colliery Railway	2.1
Lea Hall Colliery Line	2.1
Chatterley Whitfield Colliery Railway	2.0
Ashbourne Line	1.9
Burton Branch	1.9
Stafford to Manchester Line	1.9
Five Ways Branch	1.7
Talk O' Th' Hill Branch	1.7
Churnet Valley Railway	1.7
Michelin Railway	1.7

And 45 shorter stretches: Cannock Chase Nos. 7 and 8 Collieries, Stoke-Market Drayton Line, Birchenwood Gas and Coke Works, Tunstall Branch Line, Cold Meece Branch, Trubshaw Siding, Cannock Chase Branch, Grange Branch, Pool Dam Branch, Trentham Park Branch Line, Caldon Low Goods Line, Littleworth Extension Branch, Richmoor Hill Branch, Biddulph Valley Railway, Derby to Birmingham (Proof House Junction) Line, Harecastle South Railway Tunnel, Apedale Branch, South Staffordshire Railway Walk (The Track), St Edwards Hospital Tramway, Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension, Jamage Branch, South Staffordshire Railway Walk, Bond End Wharf Branch, Colwich Junction to Macclesfield Line, Hanley-Grange Chord, Hay Branch, Lea Hall Colliery, Caldon Low Lime Works, Essington Brickworks, Guild Street Branch, Madeley Coal & Iron Company Sidings, Meaford Power Station, Cannock and Rugley Colliery, Holly Bank Branch, Essington Wood Sidings, Newfields Branch Line, Oakamoor Sand Sidings, Bignall Branch, Cannock Chase No. 9 Colliery, Hulme Valley Branch, Botteslow Coal Wharf, Silverdale Tunnel, Burley Fields Siding, Glebe Colliery Sidings and Madeley Chord.

Closed railway stations in Staffordshire

All 110 closed and former stations in Staffordshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Staffordshire

22 stations in Staffordshire still have a train service. The busiest are Stoke-on-Trent (3.0 million a year), Stafford (2.5 million a year), Tamworth (1.2 million a year), Burton-on-Trent (913,000 a year) and Lichfield Trent Valley (887,958 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

West Midlands, Derbyshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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