Steam Train Leaving Stafford Station,
This shows the Princess Coronation class locamotive number 46244 'King George VI' passing Stafford Station heading north alongside Railway Street.
Steam Train, Grindley,
Steam train leaving Grindley Station on the Great Northern Railway Stafford-Uttoxeter line.
The Stafford-Uttoxeter line opened in December 1867, but nineteen years later the company folded and the ...
Stoke Roundhouse, Stoke-on-Trent
This is the locomotive yard at Stoke Roundhouse in Stoke-on-Trent and the men standing around the engine are likely to be locomotive engineers and company managers. If you look closely you can see that ...
Testing the New Riverway Bridge, Stafford
This view is from the town side of the bridge, looking towards Littleworth. The road officially opened on 15 December 1914. A plaque on the right hand pillar commemorates the event.
Plumblines are ...
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 ...
Threshing Machine and Traction Engine, Shugborough,
Tipping Molten Slag at an Ironworks. Photographed by William Blake.
Industrial scene taken at Etruria Steel Works in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This view includes a steam engine and workers tipping molten waste known as slag.
Traction engine at Brindley Pumping Station open day, Rugeley
Brindley Bank Pump House was opened in 1905 and was built by the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company. It contained a horizontal tandem compound pumping engine made by Hathorn Davey of Leeds in 1903. ...
Traction Engine at English Electric Co., Stafford
This Pickford's traction engine named ‘Atlas’ is pictured towing a turbine generator stator frame out of the east end of 101 Bay, before the very large 168 Bay (adjacent to the A34 Lichfield Road and ...
Traction Engine at The English Electric Co., Stafford
This Pickford's traction engine is King Carnival II and she is pictured towing a turbine generator stator frame out of Gate 6, at the English Electric’s Lichfield Road Works in Stafford. In the background ...
Traction Engine hauling timber, Kinver
Traction Engine, Eccleshall,
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 ...
Whitfield Colliery. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide with a view of Chatterly Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire ...