Stoke Station

Stoke Station is the main train station serving Stoke-​on-​Trent, a city in Staffordshire. The station is quite a small station and a little old-​fashioned. Here you will find only 3 platforms and even a footbrige, connected by 2 lifts.
The station its-​self, is quite an old building but still looks nice from the outside, also opposite a very nice hotel and close to bus links. To get into the City center or Hanley, where the Intu Potteries is you can get the number 25 bus, which gets you to the bus station down the road. It’s worth getting the bus as it is a good 1 – 2 miles and even a 10 minute drive on the bus.
The station its-​self is operated by Virgin Trains, with the main route passing through here being the Virgin Trains service from Manchester Piccadily to London, Cross-​Country and Northern also run routes through here, but the main route is to Manchester or London via Virgin Trains.
They is a small first class lounge on the station.
As mentioned before, it is quite old fashioned, with your typical footbridge connecting Platform 1 to Platforms 2 and 3, and with only 3 platforms, and with 2 reguarly used, it is probably a smaller station too, than you would expect for a train station of a city, which is quite disappointing for Stoke On-​Trent.
The staff here seemed nice enough, but still they did take my tickets off me when I was arriving in the station and for some reason they wouldn’t scan, and I went on not to see them again. They tried to get me through and didn’t make a big deal of it however.
My train was actually delayed by 29 minutes, and they was a lack of updates on this, to the point I had to check the National Rail app on my phone, Updates took a long time to come, and they didn’t keep me fully in the loop, when the news come in. I later found out they had been a bump on the track and the train had to turn around and they had to inspect the track, when I was going through Macclesfield on my way back to Manchester on the train.
They isn’t really a lot at the station, They is a postbox and a café, but that’s about it, they isn’t really anything on Platforms 2 or 3, and I didn’t even notice a WHsmith, so it is well worth bringing supplies if you are going to be here for the long haul, or travelling through here especially with delays likely.
Due to how delays were handled with, and this is an old station with not a lot of things there, so not the nicest place to be spending a delay in general, I feel I can only give 2 stars as it is quite poor and desperately in need of a revamp, as well as bus links being made clearer to get into the city center, to avoid awkward confrontations with bus drivers.

Aaaaah Stoke on Trent train station!!! It’s not like I’m here every day, I wouldn’t even call it often — yet I do seem to spend a lot of time waiting when I am here (mainly the fault of rubbish connections). As train stations with only 3 lines go it’s alright, average at best.
If you’re in need of a bite to eat I’d recommend the «Gourmet Café» — everything looks like it’s been made fresh that morning and they serve things in rustic brown cardboard and brown paper bags — true sign of train station quality.
If it’s just a brew the pumpkin café is fine, they accept BITE cards which makes paying train station prices more palatable.

everything you would expect from a major city station. Clean, safe and convenient layout.

This train station is very small in comparison to others however there is the over priced café and the toilets are what you would evpect. There are only two platforms. this station can get very busy at peak times and seating is limited.

This train station is small. It was modernised about three years ago and now have a little pumpkin shop where you can use a bite card and get discount. The staff are really nice. You can but tickets at a machine or go to the desk. They have a waiting room and toilets. They have lifts for easy access which is really good. They have a first class lounge which is really modern and has comfy sofas inside. They sell magazines, cakes, sweets sandwiches and hot and cold drinks in the café. They have a policy where if they don’t give you your change with your receipt you get the items free.

The station at Stoke was refurbished a few years ago, and now has a number of excellent features. The waiting rooms are now warm and comfortable, with books that can be loaned and returned for others to use. They also have a range of information leaflets and the toilet facilities are also very good. The station has a first class lounge that is not used extensively, but is well stocked with books and refreshments. There is a nice café for the rest of us to use, as well as a magazine stall on Platform 1. The staff are lovely — if you have a problem with your ticket, talk to them as they do their very best to help. Train service could be better, especially at off peak times, but the fast trains now get to London in only an hour and a half.