Passenger steam train, near Hednesford
A steam locomotive pulling carriages up the incline from Rugeley, past Moors Gorse towards Hednesford. Keeper's Cottage, the white building on the left, has since been demolished. The halt at Brindley ...
Passenger train at Oakamoor
A three-coach passenger service approaches Oakamoor in around 1957, hauled by Stanier class 4P steam locomotive number 42663.
Note the spur line to the right, heading into sidings at Bolton's Copper ...
Passenger train passing Rudyard Lake
A Fowler 4P steam locomotive passes Rudyard Lake with a three-coach passenger service from Macclesfield in 1953.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
Penkridge Church and Railway Line: steel engraving (vignetted)
'Penkridge,' showing the church on the right (only the top of the tower and the clerestory are visible above the trees), and the railway line on the left, with an old-fashioned steam engine. Anonymous....
Penkridge Railway Station
This postcard view shows Penkridge Station which was built by the Grand Junction Railway and opened on 4 July 1837. In later years the line became known as the Birmingham branch of the West Coast Main ...
Penkridge Railway Station
Penkridge Station stands on the Grand Junction Railway which opened on 4 July 1837.
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 ...
Phoenix Works, Longton
Pottery factory exterior including chimney and bottle kilns. Taken at the Phoenix pottery works, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Longton railway station can be seen in the foreground.
Taken from the Gladstone ...
Picknall's waterfall, Uttoxeter
A frosty winter's day at Picknal Brook (also known as The Picknalls) and weirs near Hockley Road, Uttoxeter. On the left is a glimpse of the Crewe to Derby railway line, often known as the North Staffordshire ...
Pinfold Signal Box, Uttoxeter
A view showing Pinfold Crossing signal box in Uttoxeter, built by the North Staffordshire Railway on the Stoke-on-Trent to Uttoxeter line. It has since been demolished and replaced with the new signal ...
Pinnox junction, Tunstall
A North Stafford Railway locomotive is shown here, about to leave Pinnox Junction with coal from Whitfield Colliery around the turn of the 20th century. To the right, the Tunstall Lower Branch railway ...
Pinnox sidings, Tunstall
The view south from the Greenbank Road railway bridge towards Pinnox Sidings and Scotia Road. The tower of St Paul's Church, Burslem is just to the left of the centre chimney.
Pinnox sidings served ...
Pittshill Station, Tunstall
The photograph was taken at Pittshill Station The station was just north of Furlong Road on the Potteries Loop Line. Opened in 1874 and closed in 1964 the area of the station has been much altered by ...
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 ...