Dilhorne Park is a stop on the Foxfield Railway in Staffordshire. It is the usual destination and terminus for trains on the line from
Caverswall Road though the line does continue onto the former Foxfield colliery.
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| Type: |
Preserved Railway
(Foxfield Railway) |
| Opened: |
1974 |
| Platforms: |
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The Foxfield Railway was an industrial line built to link the North Staffordshire Railway to the colliery in 1892. Until the line closed in the mid-1960s (along with the colliery) it never carried passenger trains. The Foxfield Railway opened a few years later with stations being built at Caverswall Road and Dilhorne Park in the early 1970s [1].
Dilhorne Park is a halt set in woodland with a fine view of the Staffordshire moorlands. The station is a basic unmanned halt with a run around siding. The station featured in the BBC costume drama
Cranford as
Hanbury Halt.
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| Having run around the train this locomotive approaches it's train to recouple |
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| Station sign |
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| The line continues on to Foxfield colliery |
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| A train waits at the station |
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| View down towards Caverswall Road |
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| Running around |
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Derby to Stoke-on-Trent (Middleton Press, 2016) Map. XXXVI
