Description:A North Staffordshire Railway train, possibly a Derby to Crewe service. The carriages are in the split milk and madder lake livery as applied up to 1896, the waist and upper pannels became madder lake thereafter. The locomotive livery at this time, around 1895, was 'Chocolate' as applied up to 1903 when the madder lake livery for locomotives was introduced. No.38 was built by the North Staffordshire Railway at their Stoke works in 1874.The telegraph posts are quite distinctive and unlike those on London and North Western Railway lines.
Photograph by the Rev. C.F.L. Barnwell (1853-1933) who was Vicar of Stramshall from 1879 to 1933, and who was a keen amateur historian and photographer.
Mr Michael Fell has kindly provided some additional information:
'The image is particularly interesting as the Rev. Barnwell was the father of Frederick Arthur Lowry Barnwell (1877-1945) who became the NSR’s Chief Engineer in 1914 and its General Manager in 1919. He first became acquainted with the NSR in September 1895 when he was articled for three years to the NSR’s Chief Engineer, George James Crosbie Dawson (1841-1914) – the very man he actually succeeded in 1914.
Locomotive No. 38 was built by the NSR at its Stoke Works in 1874 and was rebuilt in 1893 and again in 1901. The lantern slide shows the locomotive after its first rebuild. It was withdrawn in 1912.'