Disused Stations: Stoke Station

Stoke gents' toilet in May 1976. A hand operated pump is mounted on the wall. It probably filled a header tank for replenishing the cisterns and / or flushing the urinal.
Photo by David Burrows from his Flickr photostream

Stoke station entrance in April 1977. The passenger entrance was the single story building attached to the station house.,

Photo received from Celia Cook

Unknown building adjacent to the station house in April 1977.
Photo received from Celia Cook

Unknown building adjacent to the station house in April 1977.
Photo received from Celia Cook

Stoke station forecourt in April 1977. The station entrance is on the left.
Photo received from Celia Cook

Passenger route out of the station in April 1977. The gents' toilet is on the right. A hand operated pump is mounted on the wall; this was probably for filling a header tank in the gents'.

Photo received from Celia Cook

Passenger route out of the station in April 1977. The gents' toilet is on the right. A hand operated pump is mounted on the wall; this was probably for filling a header tank in the gents'. The building in the background is the Railway Tavern.
Photo received from Celia Cook

By the 1980s the track bed had been filled up to platform level to create a garden and the station building had been extended at the east end. The original buildings remain largely unaltered.
Photo by John Wells

Stoke station forecourt in 1985. The new extension is seen on the left.
Photo by Ed Prossor

Stoke station looking east in April 2005. Only the fenced area in front of the house is now a garden, the remaining infilled track bed is now a paddock.

Photo by Nick Catford

Stoke station looking west in April 2005. The extension is seen on the right occupying the site of the gents' toilet.
Photo by Nick Catford

Stoke station forecourt in April 2005. The door into the booking office is now a window.
Photo by Nick Catford

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Station Name: STOKE