Armitage Railway Station

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Date:1904 - 1910 (c.)

Description:This glass negative image shows a southbound train approaching. The man on the up platform (right) is probably a porter. The LNWR locomotive establishes mid-1904 as the earliest date of the photograph.

Armitage Station on the Trent Valley line was built to serve the villages of Armitage and Handsacre. It was opened by the LNWR on 1st November 1847, 1½ months after the opening of the railway, and was one of three Trent Valley Railway stations designated 3rd Class thus only trains which had 3rd Class accommodation called. The station buildings were basic, constructed of timber and the staggered platforms were 300ft (91m) long. In 1892 the station was rebuilt and the platforms lengthened, aligned and raised to the new LNWR standard height. The photograph shows the new building, the new lattice-girder footbridge and the up platform timber extension visible beside the locomotive. The new building was also constructed of timber and comprised a booking hall and general waiting room, an office, a ladies’ waiting room and toilet, and a gentleman’s toilet, the access to which was around the far corner. The door nearest the bridge was to the general waiting room and booking office, the far door was to the ladies waiting room and the doorways had small canopies which can also be seen. The porters’ shed is on the up platform beside the footbridge and some milk churns are below the bridge staircase, with a line of churns visible further along the platform. The timber waiting shed on the down platform is obscured by the bridge staircase.

Armitage gained a goods yard in 1877. In 1923 the station was absorbed into the new London Midland & Scottish Railway and in the 1948 nationalisation it became part of the London Midland Region of British Railways, closing on 13th June 1960, a casualty of railway rationalisation and declining business. The tracks are now the down lines and the two new up lines, laid in 2008 when the railway was widened, pass over the site on the right.

Information provided by Robin Mathams and Dave Barrett, The Trent Valley Railway History Project.

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Source: Staffordshire Museum Service

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