Locomotive Spotting, Burton-upon-Trent
This group of locomotive or train spotters are sitting on a level crossing gate close to Burton-upon-Trent Railway Station. Please contact us if you recognise anyone in the picture.
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Longton Station and the Phoenix Works, Longton
Longton Station in the foreground with the old Phoenix Pottery building behind and the tower of St John The Baptist Church (demolished in 1979) beyond that.
The station, opened in 1848, is on an embankment. ...
Looking over the Potteries from Hartshill Bank
This was the view north east from the top of Hartshill Bank (at the bottom of Vicarage Road). The lower land in the foreground is the Fowlea Brook valley with the main railway line running across. Immediately ...
Market Street, Hednesford
Market Street viewed from the junction of Church Hill with the A460 crossing the photograph in the foreground. Market Street, the town's main street, stretches ahead. Crossing the road to the right ...
Mr James Harrison, Stationmaster, Stafford
On a platform at Stafford Station, Mr James Harrison (left) Stafford’s new Stationmaster, receives a welcoming handshake from Inspector C Waltho, who is accompanied by Mr T H Holm, a relief Stationmaster ...
Normacot tunnel, Meir
The photograph shows the eastern end of Normacot tunnel near Meir Station. The railway is the Crewe to Derby line via Stoke. The houses running across above tunnel are on Station View and Meir Station ...
North Staffordshire Lines timetable
A North Staffordshire Lines railway timetable valid for passenger services from September 9th 1963 to 14th June 1964. It includes the last Potteries Loop Line passenger services which closed to passengers ...
North Street, Stoke-on-Trent
A view along North Street from the entrance to the railway goods yard. To the left is Cliff Vale Terrace (now part of North Street) with the light of the goods yard to the right. This is now the route ...
Percy Buckley at Stafford Common Signal Box
Percy Buckley is pictured by Stafford Common Signal Box wearing his uniform on the day he retired from British Railways after 51 years’ service. His final job with BR was as Yard Foreman at Stafford ...
Pond clearing, Penkridge
A member of Penkridge Natural History Society helping to clear a pond at the former brickworks site by the main Stafford to Wolverhampton railway line in Penkridge. In the background is housing at the ...
Steam locomotive near Moss Pit, Stafford
This steam train is pictured hauling freight just south of the railway bridge in Moss Pit.
The locomotive is an ex LMS Class 5 - No. 45268. It was designed by William Stanier and known as the 'Stanier ...
Steam locomotives, Dunston, near Stafford
Two steam locomotives on the West Coast Main Line heading towards Stafford from Wolverhampton, photographed near Dunston just south of Stafford.
The front loco is a Stanier designed 2-6-0 built at Crewe ...
Stoke to Leek railway line near Baddeley Green, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking south west from the bridge over the railway line near Little Heakley Farm. On the extreme right hand edge of the photograph is the top of the spoil tip of Norton Colliery. The factories ...
Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station
The station was opened in 1848 by the North Staffordshire Railway Company, (NSR): it is Grade II* listed. The glazed roof dates from 1893. On the extreme right there is a W. H. Smith newsagents stall, ...
Stone Station
A view taken (after electrification) looking south west from Stone Station along the Norton Bridge platforms.
Stone Station
Stone Railway Station was built in 1848 between two railway lines, Norton Bridge and Colwich (on the London line). It was built in the Jacobean style of architecture by H.A. Hunt, which was so often ...
The Fowlea Brook Valley from Hollywall Lane, Goldenhill
A panoramic view west from Holywall lane in Goldenhill over the Fowlea Brook Valley towards Bradwell Woods. On the left hand edge is Westport Lake and the lines of coal trucks mark the route of the main ...
Trent & Mersey Canal at Sideway, Stoke-on-Trent
A view south along the Trent & Mersey Canal in the Sideway area of Stoke, with, in the distance, the A frame and head gear of Hem Heath Colliery. Alongside the canal are sidings belonging to the colliery. ...