Great Haywood railway station

Great Haywood railway station is a disused railway station in Staffordshire, England.

Great Haywood
The site of the station in 1995
General information
Location	Great Haywood, Staffordshire England
Coordinates	52.800694°N 2.006619°W / 52.800694; -2.006619
Grid reference	SJ996225
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland & Scottish Railway
Key dates
6 June 1887	Opened[1]
6 January 1947	Closed[1]

The railway line between Stone and Colwich, England, was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) in 1849[2] but a station to serve the village of Great Haywood was not opened until 1887. Although the line was a busy route for the NSR for traffic to and from Birmingham and the south; the amount of local traffic carried was low and passenger services were never intensive.

Passenger services on the line were, as a wartime measure, reduced in 1941 to a single train per day from Stoke which had no corresponding return journey.[1] In 1947 all stopping passenger services between Stone and Colwich were withdrawn and Great Haywood along with the neighbouring station, Hixon, closed.[3]