Description:'Sand train' at Cheddleton Station on the Churnet Valley line of the North Staffordshire Railway. The station was built in 1849 in a typical N.S.R. picturesque Tudor style. Since 1978 it has been the home of the Churnet Valley Railway and the North Staffordshire Railway Museum.
Sand was carried from Hepworth's sand quarry at Oakamoor to St Helens, Merseyside for Pilkington glass. The last 'sand train' ran down the Churnet Valley in 1988.