North Portal of the Railway Tunnel, Shugborough
During the 1840s two railways were constructed through the park at Shugborough. To minimise damage to the landscape a large cutting was made to accommodate the line. Fences and trees were used to hide ...
North Stafford Hotel, Stoke upon Trent
Today's North Stafford Hotel faces Stoke station across Station Road and was originally called The Railway Hotel. The hotel and the station were designed and built together and the hotel opened for business ...
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 Staffordshire Railway Locomotive 173
A postcard photo illustrating pannier tank locomotive no.173 belonging to the North Staffordshire Railway Company together with the company badge.
It is a Hookham's 0-6-4 passenger tank engine built ...
North Staffordshire Railway Locomotive 86
A postcard illustrating North Staffordshire Railway Company express passenger locomotive no. 86 and tender.
It is a John Henry Adams Class 'G' 4-4-0 built at the Stoke-on-Trent Works in 1910. It was ...
North Staffordshire Railway locomotive and crew
Rushton station, around 1915.
There would appear to be more than the required crew compliment for this engine!
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
North Staffordshire Railway staff
Train crew and station staff of the North Staffordshire Railway pose for the camera in front of their locomotive.
Three of the pictured staff are teenagers, who would have begun their careers after ...
North Staffordshire Railway steam locomotive
A North Staffordshire Railway 2-4-2 steam locomotive, pictured in around 1900.
This engine would have been built at the North staffordshire Railway's own works at Stoke.
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North Staffordshire Railway steam locomotive
North Staffordshire Railway 2-4-0 steam locomotive number 46 stands at Uttoxeter station in 1900.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
North Staffordshire Railway train, Staffordshire
A North Staffordshire Railway train, possibly a Derby to Crewe service. The carriages are in the split milk and madder lake livery as applied up to 1896, the waist and upper pannels became madder lake ...
North Staffordshire Railway Workers, Blythe Bridge
In the centre is the guard, George Higginson, with a dog on his lap. He is surrounded by two porters, Frederick Albert Eddowes, who would have been about 15 at the time, is on the left with W.G. Gallimore ...
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 ...
North Street, Stoke-on-Trent
This is a view under the railway bridge in North Street from Shelton New Road. The North Staffordshire Railway's original Act of 26 June 1846 included a provision for building a branch line from Stoke ...
Norton Bridge Railway Station
Norton Bridge Station was on the London and North Western and North Staffordshire Railway lines. It was the nearest station to Eccleshall and in the mid-1800s the landlord of the Royal Oak sent omnibuses ...
Norton Colliery from Harrison Road, Norton-in-the-Moors
Norton Colliery is in the centre foreground just beyond the houses. The spoil tip on the horizon belongs to Sneyd Colliery and the flatter, lower ground in between is the valley of the Bank Haye Brook. ...
Norton Colliery spoil tip from Burslem Golf Course
The view south east from Burslem Golf Course over the Ford Green Valley towards Norton Colliery spoil tip. Running through the middle of the photograph is the embankment of the Biddulph Vally branch line, ...
Oakamoor
A view taken from the top of Oakamoor Tunnel, looking towards Alton. Bottom left is the crossing keeper's house with the terrace of housing built for Bolton's copper workers known as The Island. Oakamoor ...
Oakamoor level crossing
Photograph of the level crossing in Mill Road Oakamoor, and the Crossing Keepers Lodge, Oakamoor railway tunnel portal and crossing in the foreground, with the copper works and Holy Trinity Church in ...