Open day at Stoke railway station
When this open day took place at Stoke railway station, the public were invited to inspect these three veteran steam locomotives.
In the foreground, a child contemplates the gap between the staircase ...
Passenger service at Alton station
A Leek to Uttoxeter service hauled by grimy Fowler 4P locomtive number 42323 waits at Alton.
Many rural passenger services were withdrawn during the 1960s, and stations like Alton were closed.
However, ...
Passenger service at Leek station
A passenger train stands at Leek station in 1928.
The locomotive is an 0-6-0 tank engine. Because it has only two carriages it is probably a local service between Leek and Uttoxeter.
This image ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 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 ...
Railway children take to the footplate
Three thrilled youngsters smile for the camera having been invited onto the footplate of a grimy British Railways steam locomotive.
The engine in question is class 5F (or 'Stanier Black Five'), number ...