Kidsgrove railway station serves the town of Kidsgrove, in Staffordshire, England; it lies north of . The station is served by trains on the CreweâÂÂDerby line, which 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 present station was opened 9 October 1848 by the North Staffordshire Railway as Harecastle. During the early years of the North Staffordshire era, it was called Harecastle Junction, Kidsgrove Junction and Kidsgrove Junction, Harecastle, before settling upon Harecastle in 1875. Between 1885 and 1886, and 1923 and 1924, it was called Harecastle for Kidsgrove. In 1944, it was renamed Kidsgrove.
Under British Railways, it was known as Kidsgrove Central when the town had three stations; the other two were and on the North Staffordshire Railway's Potteries Loop Line. It is situated on the Manchester branch of the West Coast Main Line, at the junction where the line from Stoke-on-Trent divides for and .
It lies just north of the Harecastle Tunnels, on the Trent and Mersey Canal, and the Harecastle railway tunnel.
Services at Kidsgrove are operated by:
The typical off-peak service, in trains per hour (tph), is:
On Sundays, the station is served by an hourly service between Crewe and Stafford, with six trains per day between Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent. Hourly services operate between Crewe and Derby after 14:00 only.