Alton station
Alton station, Staffordshire, 1968.
During the Second World War army, navy and air force officers would have used this station during their training visit to Alton Towers.
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Alton station
Alton station, Staffordshire, around 1958. Coaches stand at the third platform whilst a through train works the "up" line.
Alton castle stands on the hillside above.
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Alton station
Alton station in flood during the 1950s. Both the main track and the goods siding/third platform on the left are under a couple of feet of water!
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Alton Station. Circa 1910.
A rather dapper young gentleman takes a seat on the "down" platform at Alton Station around 1910.
The station appears to be very quiet; perhaps this was a posed shot taken on a Sunday morning?
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Alton Towers
Clergy and choir at Alton Towers, Staffordshire.
This image is taken from the collection of the Churnet Valley Railway.
Alton Towers Special, Rocester
A British Railways Fowler 2-6-4 locomotive approaches Rocester station with an Alton Towers six-coach special in the late 1950s. After the Second World War the village of Rocester was chosen for the ...
Alton Towers Station
Alton station stood on the Churnet Valley line of the North Staffordshire Railway. It was built in an Italianate villa style in about 1849. The station was used by the Earl of Shrewsbury, and had a luggage ...
Amington colliery, Tamworth
Amington colliery railway and the Locomotive 0-4-0 saddle tank built by Brush in 1909. Pictured are Mr Driton, Mr Leedham and another gentleman.
Amington colliery, Tamworth
Amington pit miners next to the railway with, fourth from left, Master Walter Oliver Perry, who was only 12 to 14 years old at the time this photograph was taken.
Amington level crossing, Amington, Tamworth
An in-seam roadway, Lea Hall Colliery, Rugeley
A coal miner standing in the Deep-Seam roadway. The endless-road haulage can be seen between and adjacent to the rails. Water and fire-fighting pipes are slung from the supports at the side and the power ...
Armitage Railway Station
This glass negative image shows a southbound train approaching. The man on the up platform (right) is probably a porter. The LNWR locomotive establishes mid-1904 as the earliest date of the photograph. ...
Armitage Railway Station
Station staff pictured outside the public entrance to Armitage Railway Station during the national railway strike of July and August 1911. This had been the first national strike of railway workers in ...
Army Recruits at Colwich Station,
Army recruits at Colwich Railway Station awaiting departure. They are accompanied by a local councillor and a police constable. The alternate image is a digitally colourised version of the image.
Army volunteer recruits, Stafford
Army volunteer recruits pictured outside the London and North Western Railway Parcels Receiving Office in Stafford in about 1914.
Aston-by-Stone Railway Station
A view of the platforms at Aston-by-Stone railway station looking south, viewed from close to the level crossing at Little Stoke. A northbound locomotive is arriving at the station.
The station was ...
Asylum railway, Cheddleton
An electric railway ran from Leekbrook to the asylum at Cheddleton. It ran for about a mile and was under the control of the asylum. It carried everything from the workforce, inmates, food and coal! ...
Asylum railway, Cheddleton
A view of the electric engine that powered the asylum train serving Leekbrook Asylum. This engine is now at the National Railway Museum in York.
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