Penkridge  | |
|---|---|
 Penkridge station building, 2021 | |
| General information | |
| Location | Penkridge, South Staffordshire England |
| Grid reference | SJ920139 |
| Managed by | London Northwestern Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | PKG |
| Classification | DfT category F1 |
| Passengers | |
| 2018/19 |  0.276 million |
| 2019/20 |  0.274 million |
| 2020/21 | 54,416 |
| 2021/22 | 0.233 million |
| 2022/23 | 0.231 million |
| Location | |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
Penkridge railway station is a railway station serving the village of Penkridge in Staffordshire, England.
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 December 2023, Penkridge station is served only by West Midlands Trains services.[2][3]
The usual weekday off-peak service is as follows:
Northbound:
- 1 train per hour (tph) to Liverpool Lime Street via Stafford, Crewe and Runcorn.
Southbound:
- 1 train per hour to Birmingham New Street via Wolverhampton.
Two trains per hour between Liverpool and Birmingham operate during weekday peaks and Saturdays.[4]
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.[5][6]
Withdrawn and suspended services
It was formerly served by services to London Euston, but these were withdrawn in December 2019. It was also formerly served by services to Crewe via Stoke-on-Trent, but these were withdrawn in December 2023 as they were now operating only between Stafford and Crewe instead of Birmingham New Street and Crewe.[7][8]
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.
- ↑ "Timetable | Birmingham New Street - Liverpool Lime Street | 10 December 2023 to 1 June 2024". London Northwestern Railway. 10 December 2023.
- ↑ GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 68
- ↑ GB eNRT May 2019 Edition, Tables 65 & 68
- ↑ "Timetable | Crewe to Stafford via Stoke-on-Trent | 10 December 2023 to 1 June 2024". West Midlands Railway. 10 December 2023.
- ↑ "Timetable Change: Sunday 10 December 2023". London Northwestern Railway.
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 Birmingham — Liverpool |
Stafford | ||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Gailey | London and North Western Railway former Grand Junction Railway |
Stafford | ||
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