Trains to Kidsgrove - Station Details and further Information on Kidsgrove Train Services
Kidsgrove train station serves the town of Kidsgrove in Staffordshire, England. The station is 7 miles north of Stoke-on-Trent. The present station was opened 9 October 1848 by the North Staffordshire Railway as Harecastle.
In British Rail days it was known as Kidsgrove Central when the town had three stations, the other two were Kidsgrove Liverpool Rd and Market Street Halt on the old North Staffordshire Railway's Potteries Loop Line (All 3 stations were opened by the North Staffordshire Railway). It is situated on the Manchester branch of the West Coast Main Line at the junction where the line from Stoke-on-Trent divides for Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly station. It is just north of the Harecastle Tunnels on the Trent and Mersey Canal.
The current service consists of an hourly train in each direction operated by East Midlands Train between Crewe and Derby, an hourly train in each direction operated by London Midland between Crewe and London Euston (daytime only), an hourly train in each direction operated by Northern Rail between Manchester Piccadily and Stoke on Trent.
Kidsgrove now has three services per hour to Stoke on Trent and two services per hour to Crewe as well as hourly direct trains to London, Manchester and Derby. |
