Stafford railway station
Station frontage in 2022. | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Stafford, Borough of Stafford England | ||||
| Coordinates | 52°48′13″N 2°07′23″W / 52.80359°N 2.12307°W | ||||
| Grid reference | SJ918229 | ||||
| Managed by | Avanti West Coast | ||||
| Platforms | 6 | ||||
| Tracks | 7 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | STA | ||||
| Classification | DfT category C1 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Grand Junction Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | London and North Western Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 4 July 1837 | Station opened | ||||
| 1844 | Rebuilt | ||||
| 1862 | Rebuilt | ||||
| 1962 | Current building opened | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 | 2.591 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.472 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 0.574 million | ||||
| Interchange | 56,156 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 1.811 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.212 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 1.639 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.338 million | ||||
| 2023/24 | 2.029 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.569 million | ||||
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Stafford is a major interchange railway station in Stafford, Staffordshire, England; it is the second busiest in the county, after Stoke-on-Trent. It serves the market and county town, as well as surrounding villages. The station lies on the junction of the Trent Valley line, the Rugby–Birmingham–Stafford line (Birmingham Loop) and the West Coast Main Line; it was also the terminus for the former Stafford–Uttoxeter and Stafford–Shrewsbury lines.
The current brutalist station building was built in 1962 and is the fourth to have existed on this site. The interior of the station was refurbished in 2015, which allowed it to have a new WHSmith store and an improved ticket office.