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)
“The tranquility and peace that a scholar needs is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys are showered on us by the exertion of our mental faculties; the quest of ideas, and the tranquil contemplation of knowledge; delights indescribable, because purely intellectual and impalpable to our senses.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“Lately our poets loiter’d in green lanes,
Content to catch the ballads of the plains;”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
“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)
“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)