Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Churnet Valley Railway is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway in the Staffordshire Moorlands of Staffordshire, England. It operates along part of the former Churnet Valley Line which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1849.
The station from the road overbridge, looking south-east in 2010 Plaque marking the re-opening of Kingsley and Froghall railway station. During the 1970s, a railway preservation base was set up at nearby Cheddleton station; later, this was to become the base of the Churnet Valley Railway (CVR). The CVR had been progressing slowly in preserving ...
The local heritage railway, the Churnet Valley Railway (CVR), who already operate the line between Leek Brook and Kingsley and Froghall arranged access over the branch line with Moorland and City Railways and in 2011 started operating trains to Caldon Low exchange sidings. In 2014 MCR started the process to upgrade the track, as the condition ...
The original station opened in 1849 by the North Staffordshire Railway on the Churnet Valley Line which connected the towns of Uttoxeter, Leek and Macclesfield.Other lines that the original station connected to were both the Stoke-Leek line which connected Leek to the villages of Endon, Stockton Brook, Fenton Manor and Stoke-On-Trent and the Waterhouses branch line which connected Leek to the ...
Cheddleton Station later became the base of the Churnet Valley Railway and has a commemorative plaque dedicated to Hancock on the wall. Initially, there was a railway museum displaying artefacts relating to the North Staffordshire Railway. In 1978 the NSRS became the North Staffordshire Railway Co. (1978) Ltd, and it became a charity in 1983.
The station was opened in 1849 as part of the Churnet Valley Line constructed by the North Staffordshire Railway. Serving the village of Oakamoor the station remained open until 1965 when all services were withdrawn, A little north of the station, freight traffic from Oakamoor Sand Sidings continued until 1988.
After negotiation it became a stipulation of the bill that the dividend of the NSR could not exceed 5% until the Churnet Valley line was fully open. [3] With this concession granted the bill proceeded through Parliament and received royal assent on 26 June 1846 as the North Staffordshire Railway (Churnet Valley) Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. lxxxvi).
The Churnet Valley line now operates as a heritage railway and is located to the south of the town; services run between Kingsley & Froghall and Ipstones. Another 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -mile (2.5-kilometre) section of the former trackbed is occupied by the Rudyard Lake Steam Railway , a 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 -inch-gauge (260-millimetre) tourist line which runs ...