Blythe Bridge railway station

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Blythe Bridge
An East Midlands Railway Class 170 DMU arriving at Blythe Bridge railway station in December 2020
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
2018/19	91,610
2019/20	91,124
2020/21	26,082
2021/22	70,590
2022/23	72,300
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Blythe Bridge railway station in

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

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Blythe Bridge had at one time two

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

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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.
  OCLC 954271104
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Blythe Bridge railway station.

• 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

52°58′05″N 2°04′01″W / 52.968°N 2.067°W / 52.968; -2.067