Norton Bridge railway station

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Norton Bridge National Rail
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Location
Place Norton Bridge
Local authority Borough of Stafford
Grid reference SJ872298
Operations
Station code NTB
Managed by London Midland
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03 Decrease 4,793
2004/05 Decrease 2,080
2005/06 Decrease 585
2006/07 Decrease 341
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Norton Bridge from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Norton Bridge railway station is four miles north-west of Stafford on the West Coast Main Line near the village of Norton Bridge in Staffordshire, England.

The main line platforms were removed before electrification in the 1960s. The island platform serving the Manchester via Stoke-on-Trent branch of the WCML has been out of use since 2004 when the footbridge was removed in order to improve clearances.

From 2007, the Office of Rail Regulation no longer counted usage figures.[1]

The passenger train service has been replaced by a bus service.

The nearby junction between the Crewe and Stoke routes is an important one on the West Coast Main Line, as such during the 1960s modernisation of the line, the junction and some of the surrounding main lines were placed under the control of a new power signal box built to a similar design to that still standing at Wolverhampton. The Norton Bridge signal box was notable for its use of an experimental Westinghouse solid-state interlocking system for some years,[2] later being converted to a conventional relay-based interlocking; this signal box features briefly in the British Transport Films production "Thirty Million Letters". It closed altogether in 2004,[3] control passing instead to the signal control centre at Stoke, although the lower storey still remains in situ.

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Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Stafford
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  London Midland
Stafford to Manchester Line
  Stone
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