Denstone railway station

Denstone
General information
Location	Denstone, Staffordshire Moorlands, England
Coordinates	52°57′51″N 1°51′06″W / 52.9642°N 1.8516°W / 52.9642; -1.8516
Grid reference	SK100407
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway; British Railways
Key dates
1 August 1873 (1873-08-01)	Opened as Denstone Crossing[1]
2 April 1923	Renamed Denstone[1]
4 January 1965	Closed[1]
Location

Denstone railway station served the village of Denstone, in Staffordshire, England. It was a stop on the North Staffordshire Railway's Churnet Valley Line.

The Churnet Valley line was authorised in 1846, and opened to traffic between Macclesfield and Uttoxeter in 1849. Denstone did not originally have a station but, in 1873, a station was opened at the site of the College Road level crossing; it was consequently named Denstone Crossing. In 1923, one of the last acts of the North Staffordshire Railway, before it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, was to rename the station simply Denstone.

The station was closed on 4 January 1965.^[2]

The platforms remain in situ, as part of a footpath to Oakamoor via Alton Towers, but a house has been built across the route of the line, adjoining the former level crossing.