Froghall Wharf
The inner part of the canal basin at Froghall Wharf. The canal and a boat can just be seen in the bottom right hand corner. Limestone is being loaded from tramway wagons or from the large bank of stone ...
Gailey Railway Station
Gailey Station stood on the Grand Junction line, opened on 4 July 1837.
Gailey Station
Gailey Station stood on the Grand Junction Line and was opened on 4 July 1837.
Gate conveyors, Cannock Chase Colliery
Gate conveyors in series carrying coal through Park Seam. Wooden pit props can be seen on the left.
GEC ALSTHOM, Lichfield Road, Stafford
During GEC ALSTHOM’s ownership of the Lichfield Road site in Stafford, several of the old Switchgear Division factory buildings (dating back to English Electric’s time) were demolished to make way for ...
GEC, Lichfield Road, Stafford
Pictured is the construction of a new Diesel Generator House for the GEC Works on Lichfield Road, Stafford. On completion three diesel generators would be housed in this building. The combined ratings ...
George Taylor, Foreman on the Military Railway, Cannock Chse
George Taylor was foreman of the gang who laid the military railway track from Hednesford to Rugeley Camp. He was apparently a tough character and was in charge of the Irish workers who had to complete ...
Gig Hall Bridge on the River Dane, Heaton
This area of the Dane Valley at Dane Bridge has long been popular with day trippers, tourists and walkers. It is here at Gig Hall that the flow of water from the River Dane is split, one feeder canal ...
Girls at a Rudyard Hotel
With the coming of the railway, Rudyard Lake became a popular rural destination for the people of Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire.
It is interesting to note that the famous writer, Rudyard Kipling, ...
Glebe Street and Station Road, Stoke-on-Trent
A railway wagon is hand pushed across Station Road to a small wagon yard. The site of this yard is now a car park for rail travellers. There were no parking problems for the driver of this early motor ...
Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent
Traffic heads under the railway bridge at the corner of Glebe Street and Station Road.
Behind the photographer is the Trent & Mersey canal, and beyond that is where the (redundant) tramlines terminate. ...
Gnosall Railway Station
Gnosall Railway Station was on the Wellington to Stafford Line which opened in 1849. The line closed on 7 September 1964.
The station's wooden booking office was moved to the Foxfield Railway at Caverswall ...
Gnosall Railway Station,
Gnosall Railway Station was on the Wellington to Stafford Line. The line closed on 7 September 1964.
The station's wooden booking office was moved to the Foxfield Railway at Caverswall Road Station, ...
Goods Receiving Department, Siemens Bros. factory, Stafford
Workers from the Goods Receiving Department with saddle tank locomotive at Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works, Stafford in about 1905.
Siemens Bros. Electrical Engineering Works opened its Lichfield Road ...
Goods train at Cheadle Station
A Sand train arrives at Cheadle station in the early 1980s.
The Cheadle branch line was opened in 1892, although trains did not reach Cheadle itself until 1st January 1901. The last passenger train ...
Goods train at Etruria
Unidentified Stanier 8F locomotive at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent.
Pulling a rake of empty coal wagons, this "up goods" is heading past Cockshutt sidings on the main line.
The buildings in the background ...
Goods train bound for Northampton
A mixed goods train bound for Northampton approaches Leek on a cold winter's day in 1952.
The train is in the vicinity of Rushton, an open and windswept area in the grip of winter.
An unidentified ...
Goods train near Rudyard
A "down" goods train hauled by locomotive number 48106 passes Rudyard lake with flatbed trucks. Circa 1960.
A small narrow guage railway now operates along some of this section of track during the ...