Site of former Keele station, 1999
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Site of former Keele station, 1999
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 8 Sep 1999
View eastward on A525, under bridge carrying ex-North Stafford Stoke - Newcastle-under-Lyme (to left) - (to right) Market Drayton/Harecastle line. Keele station had been up to the right and was closed 7/5/56, when passenger services west of Silverdale ceased; Stoke - Silverdale 2/3/64 (goods 30/8/71), services on the branch to Harecastle having ended 27/4/31. Goods traffic to Harecastle (Alsager East Junction) lasted until 7/1/63, to Market Drayton until 16/3/67. The line over the bridge remains, buried in vegetation, having borne freight to/from Silverdale Colliery until 1998.(Cf. Image]).
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Image Location
Latitude
53.009121
Longitude
-2.303991