"Site of former Keele station, 1999." View eastward on A525, under bridge carrying ex-North Stafford Stoke - Newcastle-under-Lyme (to left) - (to right) Market Drayton/Harecastle line. Keele station had been up to the right and was closed 7/5/56, when passenger services west of Silverdale ceased; Stoke - Silverdale 2/3/64 (goods 30/8/71), services on the branch to Harecastle having ended 27/4/31. Goods traffic to Harecastle (Alsager East Junction) lasted until 7/1/63, to Market Drayton until 16/3/67. The line over the bridge remains, but bore its last train over 30 years before this photograph