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Lakeside Railway, Drayton Manor Park, near Tamworth

This postcard view shows the Lakeside Railway at Drayton Manor Park and Zoo. In later years the site became known as Drayton Manor Resort, one of the largest amusement parks in the UK with over 100 ...

Last day of generation at Meaford B Power Station

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This video is a record of the last day of generation at Meaford B Power Station. The video includes a short film of one of the Meaford locomotives saved for preservation and now preserved at the Foxfield ...

Last passenger train to Cheadle

A seven coach train, a special to Alton Towers on 28th March 1985. Pictured on the bank coming up from Cresswell to Tean station on the Cheadle branch line. The Cheadle branch line was opened in 1892, ...

Last Rail Journey on the Stafford to Uttoxeter Line

The Stephenson Locomotive Society (Midland Area) ran the last train on the Stafford to Uttoxeter line on 23 March 1957. This Staffordshire Newsletter picture was taken as the last train arrived at Chartley ...

Leacroft Colliery, Cannock

A postcard view of Leacroft Colliery which opened in 1874. It merged with Mid-Cannock Colliery in 1954 which in turn closed in 1967. Its location is now (June 2020) under the Poplars landfill site, Cannock. The ...

Leading Seaman, Roy Tittensor, Stafford Station

Pictured arriving at Stafford Railway Station is Leading Seaman Roy Tittensor, home from service in Korean waters and being welcomed by his brother-in-law, mother, sister, Mrs Marion Goodwin and his father. ...

Leek & Manifold Light Railway

A view of a train on the Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway between Redhurst and Wetton Mill, moving north. The railway had a short lifespan, running between 1904 and 12 March 1934. The route of the ...

Leek & Manifold Light Railway, Manifold Valley

A view of a train on the Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway between Redhurst and Wetton Mill, moving south past Darfur Crags. The railway had a short lifespan, running between 1904 and 12 March 1934. ...

Leek & Manifold Light Railway, Waterhouses

A view of the Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway as it leaves Waterhouses and enters the Hamps Valley. The railway had a short lifespan, running between 1904 and 12 March 1934. The route of the railway ...

Leek & Manifold Light Railway, Wetton Mill

An image from Staffordshire Country Magazine, May 1989 showing Wetton Mill Railway Station in the Manifold Valley on the Leek and Manifiold Light Railway. The railway had a short lifespan, running between ...

Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway

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A favourite trip out was to the Manifold Valley – and a ride on the Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway, which was closed down in 1934. Passengers would travel on the North Staffordshire Railway via ...

Leek goods yard

A dirty Standard Class 4 locomotive numbered 75030 pulls away from Leek yard in Staffordshire with an empty load of wagons. This picture was taken in 1966 when steam was becoming a rarer sight on Britain's ...

Leek railway station

A passenger service leaves Leek station on a wet day in 1960. Leek, in Staffordshire, was a mill town, hence one of the tall factory chimmneys still standing. The station is now the site of Morrisons ...

Leek station

A British Railways Ivatt Class 2, number 46430, pictured at Leek station, Staffordshire in June 1957. Leek station had a goods yard, and all manner of goods passed through, from coal mined in the Potteries ...

Light Railway, Alton Towers

The railway opened in 1953 and ran along a 700 yard long track between Alton Towers' Ingestre Station and Chinese Temple for over forty years until its closure in 1996. The locomotive in this postcard ...

Lime Kilns and Canal Wharf, Froghall

Photograph taken from the Foxt Road looking toward the working lime kilns on the lower basin on the Caldon Canal at Froghall. To the right Brunner Mond boats are being loaded in the top lock of the Uttoxeter ...

Limestone tippler at Endon

A North Staffordshire Railway truck carrying limestone is in position ready for tipping into a narrowboat. The railway brought limestone here from Cauldon Low quarries. The tippler was built in 1918-1919 ...

Littleton colliery Steam with Whiston and Wimblebury from the Foxfield Railway

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This film footage shows two steam locomotives and a brake van that were visiting Littleton Colliery near Cannock on the 12th to 15th November 1993. The two locomotives 'Whiston' works number HE3694 of ...