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Caldon Low Halt railway station

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The station was solely for the use of workmen from the nearby Caldon Low quarries, and their families. There were no goods facilities, just a single wooden platform for passengers with an old coach body to act as an waiting room. The halt a
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and was unstaffed with passengers paying for their tickets at their destination. The only exception to this was on Leek market days when a porter from
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The branch line was never a financial success and the halt closed on 30 September 1935 when passenger services on the line were withdrawn.
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Leek, Caldon Low, and Hartington Light Railways Order, 1898
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Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology
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Index

Cauldon
Staffordshire
Staffordshire Moorlands
53°02′34″N 1°53′30″W / 53.0428°N 1.8917°W / 53.0428; -1.8917
Grid reference
SK073495
North Staffordshire Railway
London Midland and Scottish Railway
railway station
Cauldon
Staffordshire
North Staffordshire Railway
Waterhouses branch line
Leekbrook Junction
Waterhouses
request stop
Waterhouses
Historical railways
Waterhouses
North Staffordshire Railway
Waterhouses branch
Winkhill


Quick (2009)
Christiansen & Miller (1971)
"Light Railways Act 1896"
Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)
"No. 27062"
The London Gazette

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