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Saturday, serving the station in time for the shift changes at 5:35 am, 1:35 pm and 8:35 pm. Services ran to and from three main destinations;
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September 1963.
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597:. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 43-44.
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571:. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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145:10 August 1941
1258:Stoke to Market Drayton
525:: David & Charles.
168:3 August 1959
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1064:Carter's Crossing Halt
935:Bucknall and Northwood
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259:Coast Main Line link.
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540:Jeuda, Basil (2010).
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1556:Trent Valley Railway
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74:52.89028°N 2.21750°W
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552:: Lightmoor Press.
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1286:Keele Park
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1021:Leek Brook
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690:Four Ashes
463:References
411:Jeuda 2010
388:Jeuda 2010
349:Jeuda 2010
301:timetables
278:Silverdale
172:1959-08-03
163:Last train
149:1941-08-10
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62:52°53′25″N
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613:972169395
506:11956311M
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361:Butt 1995
327:Footnotes
140:Key dates
104:Platforms
65:2°13′03″W
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1448:Winkhill
1438:Ipstones
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925:Biddulph
850:Branston
832:Armitage
733:Wombourn
710:Whitmore
498:60251199
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1475:Gnosall
1428:Bradnop
1165:Etruria
1155:Burslem
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1079:Etruria
1041:Rushton
1036:Rudyard
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907:Leycett
860:Croxall
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700:Madeley
215:History
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120:Disused
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307:Notes
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