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Blythe Bridge railway station in Blythe Bridge, Staffordshire, England, is served by trains on the Crewe to Derby Line; it is also a Community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway. The full range of tickets for travel are purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost.

Blythe Bridge
General information
Location	Blythe Bridge, Staffordshire Moorlands England
Grid reference	SJ956411
Managed by	East Midlands Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BYB
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	North Staffordshire Railway
Pre-grouping	North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
7 August 1848	Opened as "Blyth Bridge"[1]
1907	Renamed "Blythe Bridge"[2]
Passengers
2016/17	95,918
2017/18	95,570
2018/19	91,610
2019/20	91,124
2020/21	26,082
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station was opened on 7 August 1848 by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR). Until 1907 the spelling of the station name was Blyth Bridge.[1] The station buildings were demolished in the early 1990s and today it is unstaffed.

In 2010 it won East Midlands Trains' Best Small Station award.[3]

Signalling

Blythe Bridge had at one time two signal boxes, Blythe Bridge and Stallington, both of which controlled level crossings, which was a common feature across the former NSR.

Blythe Bridge signal box was opened by the NSR in 1884 on their Derby to Stoke line. The box was built to a standard McKenzie & Holland design and under the S.R.S. designation system is referred to as a MKH Type1.

The signal box was equipped with a standard McKenzie & Holland lever frame and a gate wheel for operating the level crossing gates which controlled traffic on the busy former A50. These gates were later replaced by a barrier crossing when traffic got too heavy for the signalman.

Blythe Bridge signal box finally closed in 1980 and the level crossing was converted to CCTV control with the barriers supervised by Caverswall signal box.

Services

All services at Blythe Bridge are operated by East Midlands Railway.

On weekdays and Saturdays, the station is generally served by an hourly service westbound to Crewe via Stoke-on-Trent and eastbound to Newark Castle via Derby and Nottingham.[4] During the late evenings, services terminate at Nottingham instead of Newark Castle.

On Sundays, the station is served by an hourly service between Crewe and Derby only although no trains operate before 14:00.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Longton		East Midlands Railway Crewe to Derby Line		Uttoxeter
	Historical railways
Meir Line open, station closed		North Staffordshire Railway Crewe to Derby Line		Cresswell Line open, station closed

Foxfield Railway

The station is situated 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) south of Caverswall Road railway station, the current southern terminus of the Foxfield Railway.

References

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2016). Derby to Stoke-on-Trent. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 52-57. ISBN 9781908174932. OCLC 954271104.

External links

• Train times and station information for Blythe Bridge railway station from National Rail
• Page with more info on the station Archived 18 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• Railways in Draycott
• Photographs of the old station buildings
• Photograph of Blythe Bridge Signal Box

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