Rugeley Town is a stop on the Chase Line in Staffordshire between Rugeley Trent Valley and Hednesford.
LNWR 350 260 arrives at Rugeley Town
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Chase Line)
Station code:
RGT
Opened:
1870 (Closed 1965)
Re-opened:
1997
Platforms:
2
The station was opened by the London North Western Railway in 1870 [1] on the LNWR Cannock Branch later to be called the Chase Line. The station was closed in 1965 along with the other stations on the Chase Line between Walsall and Rugeley Trent Valley.
A new station was opened in 1997 about 250m to the South of the original station. This was the terminus of the re-opened Chase Line until the following year when the link to Rugeley Trent Valley and the West Coast Main Line was re-established. The Chase Line, including through Rugeley Town, was electrified in 2018 (though electric trains did not operate until early 2019).
Rugeley Town is an unstaffed station and has basic facilities including bus shelters and information screens. The station is managed by West Midlands Railway though the trains are currently operated by London Northwestern. There is a half-hourly service most days between Rugeley and Birmingham New Street, half of the trains continue on to Birmingham International.
View down the platform, access between the platforms is via this footbridge
