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Waterloo Road (NSR) railway station

Waterloo Road railway station served the north of the town of Hanley, in Staffordshire, England, between 1900 and 1969.

History

The station opened in 1900, as the last station on the Potteries Loop Line by the North Staffordshire Railway, which was also known as the "Knotty".

It was also the first station on the line to close to passengers in 1943, at the height of the Second World War by the London Midland and Scottish Railway. It remained open for general goods traffic until 1966; oil traffic continued on the line to from Walker's Century Oils, now Fuchs Oil, until 1969.

The line was lifted shortly afterwards.

The site today

The station was at the road crossing on Waterloo Road, between the Etruria Loop Line and Hanley Forest Park, near Cobridge. The only remaining traces of the station is one black wall as well as the station master's house.

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