Penkridge railway station

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

Penkridge
National Rail
Penkridge station building, 2021
General information
LocationPenkridge, South Staffordshire
England
Grid referenceSJ920139
Managed byLondon Northwestern Railway
Platforms2
Other information
Station codePKG
ClassificationDfT category F1
Passengers
2017/18Increase 0.257 million
2018/19Increase 0.276 million
2019/20Decrease 0.274 million
2020/21Decrease 54,416
2021/22Increase 0.233 million
Location
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

It is situated 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 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 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. 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.

Services

As of May 2023, Penkridge station is served by West Midlands Trains services with two trains per hour northbound to Crewe via Stafford with one extending to Liverpool Lime Street via Runcorn and two southbound trains per hour to Birmingham New Street via Wolverhampton.[2][3]

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.[4][5] It was also formerly served by services to Euston, but these were removed following the COVID-19 pandemic and have not been restored.

Notes
  1. Drake, James (1838). Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway (1838). Moorland Reprints. ISBN 0903485257.
  2. "Train timetables and schedules | Penkridge". West Midlands Railway.
  3. "Train timetables and schedules | Penkridge". London Northwestern Railway.
  4. GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 68
  5. GB eNRT May 2019 Edition, Tables 65 & 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

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former Grand Junction Railway		   Stafford

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