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IN THIS VIDEO WE TAKE YOU ON A EXPLORE OF THE ABANDONED TRAIN CARRIAGES AT FROGHALL RAILWAY STATION IN STAFFORDSHIRE.
HISTORY
The North Staffordshire Railway Company (NSR) was formed in 1845 when three individual companies (The Staffordshire Potteries Railway, The Churnet Valley Railway and The Trent Valley Railway) merged and launched a Share Issue on 30th April 1845 to fund the construction of a railway network linking numerous towns of North Staffordshire together.
The prospectus outlined plans for The Pottery Line from Congleton to Colwich via Burslem and Stoke-on-Trent, and The Churnet Valley Line from Macclesfield to Uttoxeter via Leek, plus a line from Harecastle to Liverpool.
This third proposal was later shortened to cover Harecastle to Sandbach only, as part of the conditions placed upon the NSR when it absorbed the Grand Junction Railway Company’s Derby to Crewe Line that went via Uttoxeter and Stoke.
On 26th June 1846 the NSR Acts of Parliament were passed which gave the NSR permission to start construction of the three lines.
The NSR (Churnet Valley Line) Act authorised the construction of a line from North Rode to Burton-upon-Trent, with a branch from Tutbury to Willington Junction near Derby, and a line between Uttoxeter and Stoke with a capital of £1,200,00 being allocated for this.
Whilst the NSR was a relatively small railway company it became affectionately known as “The Knotty”, due to the adoption of the Staffordshire Knot as its logo on both its rolling stock and staff uniforms.
The headquarters for the company were founded at Stoke, in the heart of the smoky Potteries, with the NSR network spreading across North Staffordshire into the more scenic areas such as the valley of the River Churnet.
NSR guidebooks, produced once its network was operational, stated that Churnet meant ‘river of many windings’ which both the River Churnet and eventual line lived up to with their numerous sweeping curves.
The tender for construction of the Churnet Valley Line was let to J&S Tredwell, with construction beginning in September 1847.
The project saw one of the very first instances of a canal being closed and converted to a railway line, with the Uttoxeter section of the Cauldon Canal being shut to allow the construction of the railway from Froghall to Uttoxeter, which brought its own challenges as the NSR needed to avoid disrupting the output traffic from the works at Froghall during the period from when the canal was closed up until the railway line was formally open.
The conversion was made possible by the NSR’s previous acquisition of the Trent & Mersey Canal Company meaning there were no objections to this proposal.
Construction was completed during 1849, with the 27-¾ miles of double-track formally opening on 13th July 1849.
Stretching from North Rode, near Macclesfield, to Uttoxeter, there were several handsome station buildings built along the route to the designs of A.W. Pagin, such as those at Cheddleton, Rushton, Froghall and Oakamoor, with the one for Alton Towers being built to an more flamboyant Italianate-style for the use of the Earl of Shrewsbury who lived on the nearby estate.
Leek being the only intermediate town along the line also gained a station with a colonnade to underline its importance to the area.
Except for the conversion of the canal, there were few major engineering feats required on the line compared to some other lines, with only a selection of river bridges over the River Churnet required South of Leek and the construction of tunnels at Leek, Leek Brook, Cheddleton and Oakamoor.
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