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The station is around 5 minutes walk from the town centre. It has two platforms (connected by a level crossing), and a car park. Since 2002 there have been proposals to build a ticket office, but these look unlikely in the short term. There are bus stop style shelters on both platforms, and a real bus stop just outside the station on Station Road. New LED information boards on both platforms were introduced in 2007, replacing a single television screen at the station entrance. The station was unstaffed between 1988 and 2012, when it became staffed for the first time in 24 years for the purpose of helping people across the level crossing to platform 2.
Uttoxeter is also the railway station for Uttoxeter Racecourse, which is adjacent to the station, as well as for Alton Towers theme park, for which there is a regular bus link.
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