apprentice and assistant to a doctor at Silverdale. Sir Joseph Cook GCMG (1860-1947), Australian politician and sixth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in the village as Joseph Cooke. John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman (1877–1941), mining engineer, petroleum technologist and public servant. Fanny Deakin (1883 in Silverdale - 1968) campaigned for better nourishment of young children and maternity care for mothers Keith Broomhall (born 1951 in Silverdale) an English former footballer who played for Port Vale F.C. Transport Silverdale was served by a railway station which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in May, 1863. The station was on the NSR Newcastle to Market Drayton line and was closed in the 1960s. The station buildings remained for a number of years as train crew accommodation for British Rail staff who worked the coal trains to Silverdale Colliery. The rapid loader was located adjacent to the old station. In 2009 the track was removed between the station and Silverdale tunnel, however the two short station platforms still exist. The line from the entrance to the former site at Pepper Street through the old train station and onto Knutton and Newcastle-under-Lyme has been regenerated into a public access foot and cycle path providing a single, safe, accessible footpath for Newcastle-under-Lyme College for much of its prime catchment area. See also Listed buildings in Silverdale, Staffordshire References External links Map of Silverdale Country Park The Land Trust Villages in Staffordshire Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme Mining communities in England