Editing Staffordshire (section)

===Railways===
{{further|Rail transport in Staffordshire}}
[[File:Stone railway station.jpg|thumb|[[Stone railway station]] in [[Stone, Staffordshire|Stone]]]]
Staffordshire has several railways that pass through and serve settlements within the county. The most important of these is the [[West Coast Main Line]], which facilitates through services between London and Scotland. Few, if any, of these stop inside the county's borders. [[Stafford railway station]] is at a junction with the line to [[Birmingham New Street railway station|Birmingham New Street]], a major hub, and is predominantly served by [[West Midlands Trains|London Northwestern Railway]]. Stoke-on-Trent railway station is the busiest station in Staffordshire <ref>{{cite web |url=https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage |title=Estimates of station usage &#124; ORR Data Portal |publisher=Dataportal.orr.gov.uk |date=2021-11-25 |access-date=2022-02-19 |archive-date=30 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130052455/https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage |url-status=live }}</ref> and is served by long-distance CrossCountry and Avanti West Coast trains to Manchester. This station is also the terminus of the North Staffordshire line to Derby via Uttoxeter, which narrowly avoided closure in the 1960s. Stone railway station reopened in 2008.