Trains to Uttoxeter - Station Details and further Information on Uttoxeter Train Services
Uttoxeter train station serves the town of Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, England. It is located on the Crewe to Derby Line and is managed by East Midlands Trains. It is also the train station for Uttoxeter Racecourse as well as Alton Towers theme park, for which there is a regular bus link. The Central Trains franchise expired on 11 November 2007 and the station and its services were taken over by East Midlands Trains.
The station was built by the North Staffordshire Railway to serve its mainline from Stoke-on-Trent to Derby. The Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway line to Stafford also used the NSR's station up to the 1950s.
The section from Stoke-on-Trent to Uttoxeter was opened on 7 August 1848. At first, the still existing Hockley crossing was the location of the temporary station. Later, Bridge Street station was opened as the main station when the line was completed to Burton on 11 September 1848. When the Churnet Valley line was opened on 13 July 1849, a junction station was opened on the mainline to serve the Churnet Valley line. On this date, Dove Bank station was also opened but on the Churnet line.
Uttoxeter now had three stations in total. In 1880, the NSR decided to close all three and construct a north to west line forming a triangular junction. A new Uttoxeter station replaced all three at this new junction and opened on 10 October 1881.
Passenger services on the Churnet Valley line from Uttoxeter to Froghall ceased operation in 1965. There is an excellent model of the 1881 station at the Uttoxeter Heritage Centre.
The station building was destroyed by fire in 1988 and the station is now unstaffed.
The present passenger station on the site of the 1881 station consists of two mainline platforms each with a simple shelter and there is a bus shelter for the local bus services on the station approach road. The station is adjacent to the Uttoxeter Racecourse. |