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 ...
Pool Dam Branch Railway, Pool Dam, Newcastle-under-Lyme
An old steam train is pictured here travelling down the Pool Dam Branch railway. The railway was built as an industrial line to connect the Silverdale mines and ironworks with Pool Dam, originally, so ...
Portrait of Mr George Taylor, Railway Engineer
George Taylor worked for West Cannock Colliery Co. and was the foreman of the gang who laid the Tackeroo (the nick-name of West Cannock No. 5 Pit) government railway line to connect the army camps. The ...
Pot Banks and Bottle Kilns, Longton
This photograph is thought to have been taken from the top of St James the Less Church tower opposite Barlow Street (Upper Hill Street), first looking down Barlow Street and onto Paragon Road (Ford Street). ...
Potteries Express at Leek station
The Potteries Express takes on water at Leek station on a summer's day in 1959.
A crowd gathers at the trackside to admire the locomotive, a 'crab' 2-6-0 mogul, number 42922.
These engines were ...
Potteries Loop Line junction at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken from the Etruria Road (formerly Lord Street) railway bridge and shows the Potteries Loop Line to Hanley going off past Shelton Steel works. The main railway line leads off to ...
Potteries Loop Line, Cobridge
The view north from the Sneyd Street bridge over the Potteries Loop Line. Leek New Road bridge is the centre, with the advertising hoardings along to the left. On the right hand edge is the Progress Foundry ...
Pratt's sidings, Fenton
Old tramway with modern railway, near Pratts sidings, Fenton. Train passing under the Stoke to Trentham line.
Prince of Wales' Visit to Stafford
Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, on the platform at Stafford railway station. During this tour he also visited Sandon Hall, Stone, Trentham park and the Potteries.
This postcard view was taken ...
Quarry sidings, Oakamoor
Moneystone quarry sidings at Oakamoor. The quarries at Cauldon Low and Froghall provided limestone for the agricultural and pottery industries. At one time thousands of men were employed in the quarrying ...
R.A.M.C. Chasetown, Lichfield
A black and white postcard of the Chasetown Detachment of the Royal Army Medical Corps (R.A.M.C.) leaving for active service in 1914. They are pictured at the Goods platform at Lichfield station on the ...
RAF Stafford Service Personnel on Parade
Service personnel from RAF Stafford are pictured marching along Victoria Road towards Stafford town centre. In the background amongst the trees is the County War Memorial and on the right Stafford Station ...
Rail accident at Uttoxeter
A group of men survey the damage resulting from a rail accident at Uttoxeter station in 1890.
Although this section of the line was under the control of Uttoxeter engine shed, a heavy crane was called ...
Rail Accident, Great Bridgeford,
Rescue operation after the derailment of a train.
Spectators can be seen behind the wooden fencing on the right of the photograph.
One of the first people that were at the scene of the accident ...
Rail Accident, Uttoxeter Station, Uttoxeter
This rail accident occurred when a mineral train coming from the Bramshall direction ran into a Class C train. The Class C train was driven into a Midland Railway milk van standing at the rear of the ...
Rail Bridge collapse, Rugeley
On 15 January, 1928, the bank carrying the railway line between Rugeley Town railway station and its junction with the main line at the Trent Valley station collapsed at the bridge over the Trent & Mersey ...
Rail engineering work at Leek
Disruption to rail services through engineering work is nothing new - as this photograph clearly shows.
In 1914, the North Staffordshire Railway decided to double their capacity at Leek by adding an ...
Railway and coal wharf, Smallthorne.
Coal used to be transported from Norton colliery via a railway line. This line ran up the steep gradient, past another colliery near Community Drive to the top of the hill at Smallthorne. The coal wharf ...