Penkridge railway station
Penkridge railway station is a railway station serving the village of Penkridge in Staffordshire, England.
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![]() Penkridge station building, 2021 | |
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Location | Penkridge, South Staffordshire England |
Grid reference | SJ920139 |
Managed by | London Northwestern Railway |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | PKG |
Classification | DfT category F1 |
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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
- Drake, James (1838). Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway (1838). Moorland Reprints. ISBN 0903485257.
- "Train timetables and schedules | Penkridge". West Midlands Railway.
- "Train timetables and schedules | Penkridge". London Northwestern Railway.
- GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 68
- 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
External links

- Train times and station information for Penkridge railway station from National Rail
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Wolverhampton | London Northwestern Railway Rugby–Birmingham–Stafford line |
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Gailey | London and North Western Railway former Grand Junction Railway |
Stafford |