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Uttoxeter
Location
Place	Uttoxeter
Local authority	East Staffordshire
Operations
Station code	UTT
Managed by	East Midlands Trains
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Passenger Usage
2005/06 *	90,484
History
Key dates	Opened 7 August 1848
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Uttoxeter from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Uttoxeter railway station serves the town of Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, England. It is located on the Crewe to Derby Line and is managed by East Midlands Trains.

It is also the railway station for Uttoxeter Racecourse as well as Alton Towers theme park, for which there is a regular bus link.

The station was built by the North Staffordshire Railway to serve its mainline from Stoke-on-Trent to Derby. The Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway line to Stafford also used the NSR's station up to the 1950s.

The section from Stoke-on-Trent to Uttoxeter was opened August 7, 1848. At first, the still existing, Hockley crossing was the location of the temporary station. Later, Bridge Street station was opened as the main station when the line was completed to Burton on September 11, 1848. When the Churnet Valley line was opened, July 13, 1849, junction station was opened on the mainline to serve the Churnet Valley line. On this date, Dove Bank station was also opened but on the Churnet line.

Uttoxeter now had 3 stations in total. In 1880, the NSR decided to close all 3 and construct a north to west line forming a triangular junction. A new Uttoxeter station replaced all 3 at this new junction and opened October 10, 1881.

Passenger Services on the Churnet Valley line from Uttoxeter to Froghall ceased operation in 1965. There is an excellent model of the 1881 station at the Uttoxeter Heritage Centre.

The station building was destroyed by fire in 1988 and is now unstaffed.

The present passenger station on the site of the 1881 station consists of two mainline platforms each with a simple shelter and there is a bus shelter for the local bus services on the station approach road.

The station is adjacent to the Uttoxeter Racecourse.

Uttoxeter station layout

The Central Trains franchise expired on the 11th November 2007 and the station and its services were taken over by a new company called East Midlands Trains.

• Dudley Mall - Stoke-on-Trent to Derby Line
• The North Staffordshire Railway Study Group

• Train times and station information for Uttoxeter railway station from National Rail
• Street map and aerial photo of Uttoxeter railway station from Multimap.com