The last Sand Train, Oakamoor
A Yorkshire diesel shunting engine pulling a BIS (British Industrial Sand) 'Sand Train' pictured on its last day of operation on the Churnet Valley line in August 1988. Sand was carried from Hepworth's ...
Train at Leekbrook Junction
A goods train at Leekbrook Junction in August 1988. The diesel locomotive pictured is class 47 number 47532. Note the tall signal box, giving the signalman a clear view down the gradient towards Wall ...
Train at Wall Grange, near Cheddleton
A 'Special' train passing through the closed Wall Grange Station.
Wall Grange Station was opened in 1873. The line was originally constructed as single track throughout from Milton Junction (where ...
Train on the Churnet Branch Line
The train is on Cauldon Branch from Leek Brook Junction and is passing the former site of Winkhill Station heading towards Leek Brook and Stoke. It has stone on board from the Cauldon Lowe quarry.
In ...
Trucks leaving a pot bank
Trucks leave a pot bank fully laden with pallets and crates of wares.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
Two girls at Froghall
Two girls at Froghall, during the mid-1940s.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
Uttoxeter Canal remains, Denstone
The remains of the Uttoxeter Canal near Denstone. To the right is the Churnet Valley railway line.
The Uttoxeter Canal was a 13 mile extension of the Caldon Canal running from Froghall to Uttoxeter. ...
Uttoxeter Carnival
A carnival character in fancy dress exchanges a model train with a member of the station staff, watched by children, parents and colleagues.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet ...
Uttoxeter fruit market
This image captures the bustle of business at Uttoxeter fruit market in around 1920.
Motor and horse-drawn vehicles laden with produce vie for the attention of busy shoppers in bowler hats and flat ...
Uttoxeter Station
Dove Bank Station was the original Churnet Valley station at Uttoxeter. Trains from Stoke-on-Trent to Derby called at the company’s Bridge Street station. To save passengers the inconvenience of travelling ...
Uttoxeter station
Pictured here in around 1960, Uttoxeter remained an important junction on the route of the old North Staffordshire Railway.
To the south - behind the camera - the line still runs around the edge of ...
Uttoxeter Station
A local train pulls into Uttoxeter station on a bright spring day in 1915.
This train, pulled by a small tank engine, could be terminating here, or it could be travelling on to Ashbourne and Buxton. ...
Uttoxeter station
Two North Staffordshire Railway staff pose for a photograph at Uttoxeter station in around 1900.
This station was an important junction for trains to Stoke, Derby, Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Ashbourne, ...
Uttoxeter station football team
Twelve members of the Uttoxeter station football team pose for a photograph during the 1960s.
This image is included by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
View of The Churnet Valley Railway, Uttoxeter
A photograph taken from the Uttoxeter Bypass bridge looking north towards Spath. The fields in the foreground left are now occupied by a scrap yard.
Village store and coffee house, Oakamoor
During the 1890s, this building doubled as both a village store and coffee house, serving the village of Oakamoor.
It must have been quite a novelty for such a small village to have a coffee house; ...
Wall Grange Pumping Station, near Cheddleton
The building to the right of the image is the Staffordshire Potteries Water Works Company's Wall Grange Pumping Station, built in 1849 was the first one locally to have provided water to Stoke on Trent. ...
Wall Grange Station, near Cheddleton
Wall Grange Station was opened in 1873. The line was originally constructed as single track throughout from Milton Junction (where the line diverged from the Biddulph Valley line) to Leek Brook Junction. ...