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Alton station

Alton station, Staffordshire, in the 1970s. It is built in the classic Italianate style, and possibly designed by H.A. Hunt, the architect who designed Stoke-on-Trent station. After closure in the ...

Armitage Railway Station

This glass negative image shows a southbound train approaching. The man on the up platform (right) is probably a porter. The LNWR locomotive establishes mid-1904 as the earliest date of the photograph. ...

Aston-by-Stone Railway Station

A view of the platforms at Aston-by-Stone railway station looking south, viewed from close to the level crossing at Little Stoke. A northbound locomotive is arriving at the station. The station was ...

Bank Haye Brook valley, Stoke-on-Trent

Looking south along the Biddulph Valley branch line. This section is between Black Bull (behind the camera) to Ford Green and the photograph was taken from the Whitfield Mill crossing. Off to the left ...

Biddulph Valley Branch alongside Norton Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent

A view along the Biddulph Valley branch line where it runs alongside Norton Colliery, which is to the right. The spoil tips just appear on the extreme right. The photograph was taken from the Leek Road ...

Bradwell Woods and Fowlea Brook, Tunstall

Looking south west over the Fowlea Brook towards the higher ground of Bradwell Woods. The photograph was taken from near the end of Watergate Street by Copp Lane. Running across the centre is the main ...

Chatterley Whitfield Colliery spoil tip, Stoke-on-Trent

A view of the Chatterley Whitfield spoil tip from the Biddulph Valley branch line to Congleton. The photograph is looking north from close to Chell Heath Road. The railway line is now a walkway into Whitfield ...

Chatterley Whitfield spoil tip, Stoke-on-Trent

This is a view of Chatterley Whitfield Colliery waste tip from the Biddulph Valley branch line. The camera is looking north, with the houses on Catharine Road to the left of the photograph. This section ...

Chell from Fir Tree Farm, Ball Green, Stoke-on-Trent

This is a view east from Fir Tree Farm over the Ford Green Brook valley towards Chell Heath. Fir Tree Farm is just off Whitfield Road in Ball Green. Running towards the top of the photograph is Cornhill ...

Coal train at Cobridge station

A coal train passes through Cobridge station during 1932. The bottle ovens in the background now belong to Moorcroft Pottery, but are no longer used for firing. Cobridge was connected to the railway ...

Colwich Old Signal Box

Pictured in the Old Signal Box at Colwich are (left to right): David Buckley, Telephone Attendant and Gordon Axten, Signalman ('Box Lad'). David lived in the railway cottages nearby to the Stoke-on-Trent ...

Diesel engines and carriages, Colwich

Pictured just south of Colwich brickyard are Derby-built English Electric diesel 'twins' 10001 and 10000 on the 'up' London express. 10000 was built in 1947 and was delivered just in time to have LMS ...

Euston to Manchester train, Colwich

The 'Mancunian' London Midland and Scottish Railway Euston to Manchester train in a photograph taken from the Trent & Mersey Canal towpath, near Colwich.

Express at Whitmore troughs

A Birmingham to Manchester express train takes on water at Whitmore troughs in Spring 1933. Many steam engines' tenders were fitted with scoops, allowing them to replenish their water supplies from ...

Express train approaching Norton Bridge

A Birmingham to Manchester express train approaches Norton Bridge station in Summer 1932. The track to the right continued to Crewe behind the photographer, and to Stafford in the direction of the ...

Fenton Manor marlpit, Fenton

This photograph was taken looking southwest over the marl pit towards Boothen. On the extreme right hand edge of the photograph are two of the floodlight pylons at the old Stoke City Victoria ground. ...

Ford Green Road, Stoke-on-Trent

Looking north east along Ford Green Road from near the junction with Chetwynd Street (on the right). Ford Green station, on the Biddulph Vallley branch, is just to the left of the level crossing gates ...

Fowlea Brook, Longbridge Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent

The view south from the bridge over the Fowlea Brook just north of Longport Station. At this point the Stoke on Trent City boundary runs along the brook: to the right is Newcastle under Lyme. On the ...