Trentham Gardens railway station

Trentham Gardens railway station (originally named Trentham Park) was the last station built by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) and was the terminus of the short 1 mile 14 chains (1.18 miles; 1.89 kilometres) Trentham Park branch.

[3] Regular passenger traffic on the branch line was withdrawn between 1927 and 1938 although excursion trains ran frequently.

[2] During the war the Bankers' Clearing House – the arrangement of the clearing banks to exchange cheques – was evacuated from London to Trentham Hall[4] and regular goods trains ran to Trentham Park to deliver supplies.

[2] After the war excursion trains continued, and in 1946 the station was renamed Trentham Gardens.

[2] The growth in car traffic made the branch line less economic and it closed at the end of 1957[1] Since closure the site of the station has been built upon and is now a housing estate.