Ingestre railway station

Ingestre and Weston railway station was a former British railway station to serve the village of Ingestre in Staffordshire.^[2]

Ingestre and Weston
Site of Ingestre station, in 2017
General information
Location	Weston, Stafford England
Coordinates	52°50′15″N 2°02′05″W / 52.8375°N 2.0348°W / 52.8375; -2.0348
Grid reference	SJ977266
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
23 December 1867	Station opened as Weston
January 1870	renamed Ingestre for Weston
date unknown	renamed Ingestre
4 December 1939	Station closed^[1]

It was opened by the Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway in 1867. Originally called Ingestre it was actually much closer to Weston and was renamed (also Ingestre for Weston) in 1870 to avoid confusion with Weston and Ingestre on the North Staffordshire Railway.

The Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway was purchased for £100,000 by the Great Northern Railway in July 1881 and the line subsequently passed into LNER ownership with Railway Grouping in 1923.

Proceeding north west the line passed over the North Staffordshire Railway's main line from Stone to Colwich, the line climbed slightly towards Chartley and Stowe.

Passenger services finished in 1939.

References

1. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
2. Jones P (1981) The Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway, Salisbury: The Oakwood Press

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2016). Derby to Stoke-on-Trent. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 87-89. ISBN 9781908174932. OCLC 954271104.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Salt and Sandon Line and station closed		Great Northern Railway Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway		Chartley Line and station closed