Just to clarify things are trains still able to run to Ipstones? Was it ever the intention of the CVR to run to Oakamoor?
Trains can and do still run to Ipstones (first full length trips of the year this weekend in fact).
The track from Froghall to Oakamoor was lifted and sold to pay an initial payment to MCR towards purchasing the physical line from Leekbrook to Ipstones.
MCR are no longer as interested in that section of line due to the ongoing uncertainty regarding the future of Cauldron Lowe Quarry (MCR originally intended to run quarry trains as the primary use,and allow CVR to run heritage trains as a side line).
MCR and CVR are very much intertwined, they share directors, and CVR have provided loans to MCR ( One was then converted to pay a second installment on the Leekbrook to Ipstones section).
It must have been the original intention of CVR to operate to Oakamoor as they purchased the track right upto the sand sidings there, and plans were mooted for a "moneystone" station there.
Their own plans were then expanded by MCR who want to extend the line beyond Oakamoor to Alton Towers and use track rights over the CVR to run trains from Stoke to Alton Towers.