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The majority of services are operated by D&G Bus, with First Potteries, Mikro Coaches and Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire also using the station. [4]D&G Bus operate 8 routes from Crewe Bus Station [5] including regular services in and around Crewe as well as to the nearby towns of Congleton, Macclesfield, Nantwich, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Northwich, Sandbach and Winsford.
In 1952 a special passenger train ran from Crewe along four closed North Staffordshire railway lines this included the Biddulph Vally Line. [ 5 ] All stations, with the exception of Biddulph, were demolished after closure; the track was lifted from Bucknall and Northwood to the junction near Congleton.
The Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway was a standard gauge railway line which began as a single line branch in the early 1860s and rapidly became part of the Great Western Railway's (GWR) double track Wellington to Nantwich Railway, which had through trains to Crewe. It carried through freight and local passenger traffic until its closure in ...
The railroad tracks where the derailment occurred run along the southern border of the village - shown on the map below: ... Of the 150 cars on the train, 38 derailed, including 10 of the 20 that ...
Congleton has a small Non-Accident and Emergency hospital, Congleton War Memorial Hospital, which was built by public subscription in 1924. The town is also served by Leighton Hospital in Crewe , Macclesfield District General Hospital and the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent .
On 27 December 1864 there was a collision between a London and North Western Railway goods engine and van and a North Staffordshire Railway passenger train at Congleton junction where the Biddulph Valley line joined the Stafford-Manchester line. [52] On 17 February 1899 there was a collision at Congleton railway station. [53]
On 27 December 1864 there was a collision between a London and North Western Railway goods engine and van and a North Staffordshire Railway passenger train at Congleton junction where the Biddulph Valley line joined the Stafford-Manchester line. [38] On 17 February 1899 there was a collision at Congleton railway station. [39]
Congleton Upper Junction was a railway station which served the town of Congleton.The station was on the Stoke on Trent to Congleton loop line. The station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on 1 June 1864 and closed a few days later.