Longton is a stop on the Crewe-Derby Line in Staffordshire between Stoke-on-Trent and Blythe Bridge.
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| East Midlands Railway 170 511 arrives at Longton |
| Information |
| Type: |
National Rail
(Crewe-Derby Line) |
| Station code: |
LGN |
| Opened: |
1848 |
| Platforms: |
2 |
The station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1848. The station is built at one end of a cantilever bridge over a road, the platforms being on an embankment. The platforms once had canopies but these have now gone. A ticket office was situated at street level below the station but this was closed in the 1990s. The station is now unstaffed.
A bus station was built next to the station in 2003 called Longton Transport Interchange [1]. The station is managed by East Midlands Railway who usually operate an hourly service in both directions.
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| View down the platform, the usual bus shelter can be seen |
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| Station sign |
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| The cantilever bridge |
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| Down the platform in the other direction, towards the bridge |
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| EMR 156 917 departs |
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Derby to Stoke-on-Trent (Middleton Press, 2016) Fig. 62
