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Hednesford railway station serves the town of Hednesford in Staffordshire, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by London Midland. ==History== The station was opened in 1859 on the Cannock Mineral Railway's line from to and taken over by the London and North Western Railway a decade later〔(Cannock Chase History - Railways Stations around Cannock Chase ) www.cannockchasehistory.org; Retrieved 2013-08-30〕 (though the LNWR had worked the line from the outset). It closed to passengers on 18 January 1965 and to goods traffic on 6 September the same year as a result of the Beeching Axe, though the line that passed through remained in use for goods & mineral traffic, serving the power station at Rugeley and various local collieries. The station reopened in 1989, as the terminus of the first stage of the reopening of the Chase Line from Walsall to passenger trains. At first, there was just a single platform (the current Walsall-bound one); however when services were extended to Rugeley Town in 1997, a second platform was added. In October 2009 it was reported that the station had been equipped with a PERTIS Permit-to-Travel ticket machine ahead of introduction of a reported extension to London Midland's Penalty Fares scheme from 1 November 2009. The station has undergone improvements with the fitting of a live information system and card ticket machines, completed in April 2010. A minor extension to Platform One was completed in October 2012. The route through the station will be resignalled & electrified in the next few years - the signalling work is due for completion in August 2013〔(Signal Box Closures - Latest News, The South Staffordshire Line )''SouthStaffsRail'' website; Retrieved 2013-09-17〕 (with the signal box here one of those scheduled to close) and electrification will follow by December 2017. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hednesford railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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