Chatterley railway station

53°03′49″N 2°13′39″W / 53.0635°N 2.2275°W / 53.0635; -2.2275Grid referenceSJ850520Platforms2Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyNorth Staffordshire RailwayPost-groupingLondon, Midland & Scottish RailwayKey datesJanuary 1864Opened as Tunstall^[1]1873Renamed Chatterley^[1]27 September 1948Closed^[1]

Chatterley railway station is a former railway station in Staffordshire, England.

Situated in the main North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) between Stoke-on-Trent and Macclesfield a station was opened in 1864 to serve the nearby town of Tunstall and was named Tunstall. In 1873 the NSR opened the Potteries Loop Line which went much closer to Tunstall town centre. A new station called Tunstall was built on the Potteries Loop Line and the existing station renamed Chatterley.^[2] For some years the station was referred to in timetables as Chatterley for Tunstall.^[1]

The station closed in September 1948^[2] and although the line between Stoke and Macclesfield still exists, the station site is no longer on the route as the line was diverted during the electrification of the West Coast Main Line as the Harecastle railway tunnels were not large enough to accommodate the overhead wires.^[3]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Longport Line and station open		North Staffordshire Railway Stafford to Manchester Line		Harecastle Line and station open

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• Christiansen, Rex & Miller, Robert William (1971). The North Staffordshire Railway. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5121-4.
• Jeuda, Basil (2010). The North Staffordshire Railway in LMS days. Vol. 1. Lydney, Gloucestershire: Lightmoor Press. ISBN 978-1899889-48-8.
• Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.