Penkridge railway station

Penkridge
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General information
Location	South Staffordshire
Managed by	London Northwestern Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	PKG

Penkridge railway station is a station serving the town of Penkridge in Staffordshire, England.

It is situated on the Birmingham branch 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 London Northwestern Railway, who run all of its train services.

History

The original station was built by the Grand Junction Railway and opened in 1837.^[1]^: 31 Baron Hatherton allowed to trains 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.

Services

The station has a slightly unusual weekday service pattern, in that there are two trains per hour southbound to Birmingham New Street but only one per hour northbound to Crewe and Liverpool Lime Street. A number of additional services call northbound during the morning and evening weekday peak periods. On Sundays there is an hourly service each way.^[2]

Notes

^ Drake, James (1838). Drake’s Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway (1838). Moorland Reprints. ISBN 0903485257.
^ GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 68

References

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

Train times and station information for Penkridge railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail		Following station
Wolverhampton		London Northwestern Railway Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford Line	Stafford
	Disused railways
Gailey		London and North Western Railway former Grand Junction Railway	Stafford