Mow Cop and Scholar Green railway station was a station on the North Staffordshire Railway between Stoke-on-Trent and Congleton. It served the village of Mow Cop.
The station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on 9 October 1848. The station closed in 1964 and was immortalised in that year in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann. The signal box survived in use until 2002, and is now preserved privately in the village.
| Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Congleton Line and station open | North Staffordshire Railway Macclesfield to Stoke Line | Kidsgrove Line and station open | ||
| North Staffordshire Railway Potteries Loop Line | Kidsgrove Liverpool Road Line and station closed |
Famous quotes containing the words mow, scholar, green, railway and/or station:
“The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.”
—Tertullian (c. 150–230)
“A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.”
—Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“It was evident that the same foolish respect was not here claimed for mere wealth and station that is in many parts of New England; yet some of them were the “first people,” as they are called, of the various towns through which we passed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)