Tutbury and Hatton railway station

Tutbury and Hatton Station is a railway station in England, served by trains on the Crewe to Derby Line, which is a Community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway.

Tutbury and Hatton
National Rail
A Central Trains Class 170 DMU arriving at the station, bound for Skegness (2005)
General information
LocationHatton, South Derbyshire
England
Grid referenceSK215296
Managed byEast Midlands Railway
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeTUT
ClassificationDfT category F2
Key dates
11 September 1848Opened as Tutbury[1]
7 November 1966Closed[1]
3 April 1989Reopened as Tutbury and Hatton[1]
Passengers
2017/18Increase 71,038
2018/19Increase 71,100
2019/20Increase 73,974
2020/21Decrease 15,546
2021/22Increase 45,232
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

The original station, called simply Tutbury, was opened on 11 September 1848 by the North Staffordshire Railway. Nestlé have a historical presence in the village of Hatton due to the surrounding farmland, which supported a strong dairy farming industry. Nestlé's factory is labelled by the company as their Tutbury factory. Until the late 1970s the factory had its own private siding, which gave access to milk trains from the station. The factory since has developed into a major coffee producer, the sole UK facility producing the Dolce Gusto range, and also NescaféNESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto

The original Tutbury station closed to passengers on 7 November 1966.

The present station was opened in 1989 and serves the villages of Tutbury in Staffordshire, and Hatton in Derbyshire.

Facilities

The station is formed of two platforms which are staggered either side of the level crossing, supervised by a signal box at the station.

The station is unstaffed and facilities are limited. The station has a shelter on each platform as well modern help points and bicycle storage. The station has no ticket machines and the full range of tickets can be purchased from the guard on board the train.[2]

Step-free access is available to both the platforms at the station.[3]

Services

All services at Tutbury and Hatton are operated by East Midlands Railway.

On weekdays and Saturdays, the station is generally served by an hourly service westbound to Crewe via Stoke-on-Trent and eastbound to Newark Castle via Derby and Nottingham.[4] During the late evenings, services terminate at Nottingham instead of Newark Castle.

On Sundays, the station is served by an hourly service between Crewe and Derby only although no trains operate before 14:00.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Uttoxeter   East Midlands Railway
  Derby
    Peartree
Limited Service
  Historical railways  
Line open, station closed
North Staffordshire Railway
Line open, station closed
North Staffordshire Railway
Line and station closed

References
  1. Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 388. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.
  2. "Tutbury and Hatton station information". East Midlands Railway. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  3. "Tutbury and Hatton station map". National Rail. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  4. Table 50 National Rail timetable, May 2022

Further reading
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2016). Derby to Stoke-on-Trent. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 13-18. ISBN 9781908174932. OCLC 954271104.
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