Tutbury & Hatton is a stop on the Derby to Crewe Line, it is located in the village of Hatton though also serves the adjacent village of Tutbury.
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Derby-Crewe Line)
Station code:
TUT
Opened:
1848 (Closed 1966)
Re-opened: 1989
Platforms:
2
The station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1848 as Tutbury. The station was closed in 1966 but re-opened in 1989, this time as Tutbury & Hatton [1].
The original station had two facing platforms, one being an island platform with a bay for services to Burton-on-Trent. The current station has split platforms either side of a level crossing. The crossing is controlled by a signal box.
Tutbury once had extensive sidings both sides of it including for the condensed milk factory next to the line which is now owned by Nestlé (and makes coffee) [2]. Tutbury & Hatton is managed by East Midlands Trains who operate an hourly service in both directions between Derby and Stoke-on-Trent or Crewe. The station nowadays is a typical unmanned one with a couple of bus shelters and little else, the original station's buildings are now long gone.
A Crewe bound EMT service departs
Tutbury signal box
Station name sign
Down the line towards Stoke
Looking towards Derby, the coffee factory in operation
EMT 153 357 arrives with a Crewe bound service
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Derby to Stoke-on-Trent (Middleton Press, 2016) Fig. 16 [2] Ibid. Map. Va
