Leek railway station under demolition
Leek railway station was demolished in 1973 after passenger services were withdrawn. As with many former Knotty railway station sites this one was bought by the supermarket chain Safeway (now Morrisons). ...
Leek Road, Hanley
This photograph was taken from the Heath House Lane bridge over the Stoke to Leek and Biddulph branch line. The camera is looking south in what Bert Bentley described as "putrid light". On the left is ...
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 ...
Leek Station and Yard
Leek Station stood on the North Staffordshire Railway line from Uttoxeter to North Rode in Cheshire. It opened on 13 July 1849. The station closed in 1970 and was demolished in 1973-4. The goods shed ...
Leek Tunnel
This picture shows a view looking north towards the tunnel at Leek. Taken from the water tower at the north end of the up platform, you can clearly see the gas holder that served the town with gas. The ...
Leekbrook asylum line
The Leekbrook asylum line. Passengers, nurses and inmates switched from mainline trains to the asylum's own electric railway here for the short one mile ride to the hospital.
This image is taken from ...
Leekbrook Junction
Leekbrook Junction acted as a station for the local asylum. This line was never electrified, but the asylum train was electric. Patients had to alight the steam train and get onto the asylum train waiting ...
Leekbrook Tunnel
A Standard Class 2 locomotive, number 75035, emerges from Leekbrook tunnel in Staffordshire during the 1960s.
Despite closure to goods traffic in 1988, this stretch of line through the Churnet Valley ...
Leigh Railway Station
Photograph showing disused Leigh Station and level crossing. The road and level crossing at Leigh station. The station stood on the Uttoxeter to Stoke-on-Trent line on the North Staffordshire Railway, ...
Leigh Railway Station
Photograph showing disused Leigh Station and level crossing. The road and level crossing at Leigh station. The station stood on the Uttoxeter to Stoke-on-Trent line on the North Staffordshire Railway, ...
Leigh Railway Station
Leigh Railway Station and platforms with the road and level crossing, looking north towards Cresswell. The station stood on the Uttoxeter to Stoke-on-Trent line on the North Staffordshire Railway, and ...
Leigh Signal Box and Level Crossing
Leigh signal box stood near to the station which was on the opposite side of the track. They stood on the Uttoxeter to Stoke-on-Trent line on the North Staffordshire Railway which opened in 1848.
The ...
Leigh Station
A view of the platforms at Leigh station, looking north west towards Cresswell. The station stood on the Uttoxeter to Stoke-on-Trent line on the North Staffordshire Railway, and was opened in 1848. The ...
Leigh Station
The road and level crossing at Leigh station. The station stood on the Uttoxeter to Stoke-on-Trent line on the North Staffordshire Railway, and was opened in 1848. the station closed in 1966 but the ...
Level Crossing at Blythe Bridge
View of the level crossing and signal box at Blythe Bridge. It was built on the Stoke-on-Trent to Uttoxeter branch of the North Staffordshire Railway, which opened in 1848.
Level crossing gates, Johnson Road/Park Avenue, Uttoxeter
Level crossing on Scotia Road, Tunstall
The photograph was taken from close to the corner of King William Street and Scotia Road, looking southwards. In the centre are the level crossing gates allowing the Chatterley Whitfield mineral railway ...
Level crossing on the Birches Head Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Level Crossing and crossing house at Birches Head Road on the Biddulph Vlalley/Stoke to Leek branch line. The camera is looking south. Birches Head road was known as Horse Lane until the 1920s. The Caldon ...