Leycett railway station is a disused railway station in

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, England. The station was situated on the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) Audley branch line. The Audley line ran from a junction on the Stoke to Crewe line near to a junction between and on the

Stoke to Market Drayton Line The Stoke to Market Drayton Line was a railway line that ran through Staffordshire and Shropshire that was built by the North Staffordshire Railway. Construction The first part of the line to be built required the private Silverdale & Newcastl ...

Like many of the lines opened by the NSR the Audley line was built primarily to carry mineral traffic. The line opened in 1870 but passenger services were not introduced until 1880, partially a wait caused by the need to build a junction from the Audley line that would allow trains to run directly towards Stoke rather than having to reverse at the junction which was how the line was originally constructed. The decision to introduce passenger trains over the line led to the opening of a station to serve the mining village of

Leycett Leycett was a small mining village in Staffordshire in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme which was built in the late eighteen sixties to accommodate the miners and their families. Population details as taken at the 2011 census can be found ...

in June 1880. By 1923 the station was served six services a day in each direction from , three terminating at and the others continuing to . The rise in local bus services led to a decline in the revenue raised from passengers and in 1931 the

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withdrew all passenger services on the Audley line from 27 April 1931. Freight traffic too had been diminished by the economic depression towards the end of the 1920s and many of the local collieries closed as they became worked out or uneconomic to maintain and the line was reduced to a single line in 1933 although freight services continued until complete closure of the line between Audley and Keele in June 1962.

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