Wheelock & Sandbach
Rear of the station ticket office in 2013
General information
Location	Wheelock, Cheshire England
Grid reference	SJ750595
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
3 July 1893	Opened as Sandbach (Wheelock)[1]
2 April 1923	Renamed Wheelock & Sandbach[1]
28 July 1930	Closed[1]

Wheelock & Sandbach railway station served the village of Wheelock, in Cheshire, England, between 1893 and 1930. It was built by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR).

The NSR was conceived originally as a line between Stoke-upon-Trent and Liverpool, an idea abandoned as part of an agreement with the Grand Junction Railway in 1845.^[2] The short (6.5 miles (10.5 km)) line from Lawton Junction to Ettiley Heath was opened as a goods traffic only line in 1852.^[3] Subsequently, the line was extended to join with the London and North Western Railway at Sandbach in 1866.^[3] Towards the end of the 19th century, the NSR decided to introduce a passenger service on the line and Sandbach (Wheelock) railway station was opened in July 1893, as the terminus of the new service from Harecastle.^[3]

There were only three trains each way per day; extra services were provided on Thursday (market day in Sandbach) and Saturday, but there was no Sunday service.^[3] By August 1927, the passenger service had been reduced to services on Thursday and Saturday only;^[1] in June 1930, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway decided to withdraw the passenger service from 28 July 1930.^[3]

The station buildings still survive in use for a tyre-fitting business. The trackbed forms part of National Cycle Network route 5, which runs from Ettiley Heath towards Malkins Bank.^[4]

• Christiansen, Rex & Miller, Robert William (1971). The North Staffordshire Railway. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5121- 4.
• Jeuda, Basil (2012). The North Staffordshire Railway in LMS days. Vol. 2. Lydney, Gloucestershire: Lightmoor Press. ISBN 978-1899889-65-5.
• Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.

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