The Hay Sidings during the flood of 1912
A Worthington Steam Loco moving a train of wagons carrying grain and casks through the flood waters. On the sidings in the background is the Bass Old Brewery and the Burton Brewery Co. with Midlands Railway ...
The Lancer at speed, Whitmore
'Royal Scot' 4-6-0 locomotive number 6155, named The Lancer, pictured at speed on a summer's day in 1947.
The locomotive is passing Whitmore water troughs, at the summit of a gradient between Stafford ...
The last passenger train to Cheadle
A special train to Alton Towers taken on 28th March 1985 just after its arrival at Cheadle station and the very last passenger train to leave Cheadle on the Cheadle branch line.
The Cheadle branch ...
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 ...
The Trent in Flood, Burton-on-Trent
The river in full flood and up against the Hay Sidings. The sidings are full of wagons and one of the Bass steam locomotives can just be seen in front of the Old Brewery and Worthington's Maltings.
The Viaduct, Monsal Dale. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape including a steam train crossing the Monsal Dale Viaduct, Nr. Bakewell, Derbyshire.
The viaduct, spanning the River Wye, was built in the 1860s and carried passengers on the Midland Railway ...
Thor's Cave, Leek & Manifold Light Railway
Thor's Cave looms over the Manifold Valley in this view. Also pictured is Thor's Cave Station on the Leek & Manifold Light Railway, which served the village of Wetton and had a waiting and refreshment ...
Train picking up Mailbags at Full Speed
This postcard view shows the transfer of mailbags between a fast moving train and an unknown railway station. Please contact us if you recognise the precise location.
In the centre on the immediate ...
Train with brewing equipment, Burton-upon-Trent
Lager vacuum fermentation vessels being transported in Burton-upon-Trent, purchased from the USA in 1899 by Percy Allsopp and installed at his Burton brewery. This photograph marks a very significant ...
Transporting a locomotive, Black Eagle Brewery, Burton-upon-Trent
A Pickfords low loader transporting a locomotive at Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co.’s Black Eagle Brewery which was situated just off Station Bridge, bordering Derby Street.
This Peckett & Sons 0-4-0ST ...
Tug and locomotive, GEC Alsthom, Stafford
On the right (left to right) are David Jones and Bernard Duffy who are pictured outside GEC Alsthom Turbine Generators Ltd.'s Over-Speed Control Room on the Lichfield Road site at Queensville in Stafford. ...
Tutbury Station
Tutbury Station was built on the Burton-upon-Trent to Uttoxeter branch line of the North Staffordshire Railway and opened in 1849. The station closed in 1966 and was demolished, but re-opened in 1990.
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View from Red Hill, Stone
A romanticised view of Stone from Red Hill. On the left is St. Michael's Church, in the centre can be seen Joule's Brewery and to the right is the Roman Catholic Church of St. Dominic. A steam locomotive ...
W.G. Bagnall Ltd., Engineering Works, Stafford
This view shows part of the Erecting Shops at W.G. Bagnall Ltd., which was established in 1870 in Castle Street, Stafford. Bagnall's first locomotive was produced in 1875, the company going on to produce ...
Wall Grange Station, near Cheddleton
A view of the North Staffordshire Railway's (NSR) Wall Grange railway station, near Cheddleton. This photograph was taken before the track was doubled and a second platform built in 1910. The Caldon Canal ...
Water troughs
A Colwyn Bay to Walsall express train passes over the water troughs at Whitmore in the Autumn of 1933.
Many steam engines were fitting with scoops on their tenders, allowing them to replenish their ...
Webb side tank locomotive at Hednesford Depot
Although the locomotive’s number cannot be discerned in this postcard photograph, it is thought to be LNWR 1054 which was to become LMS 7799 and BR 58926. The was the last survivor of this Francis Webb ...
Whitmore troughs. Circa 1930.
A fine view of the water troughs at Whitmore level on the Stafford-Crewe section of the former London & North Western Railway Co metals.
A mixed goods train speeds through, but not taking on water. ...