Train at Leekbrook Junction
A goods train at Leekbrook Junction in August 1988. The diesel locomotive pictured is class 47 number 47532. Note the tall signal box, giving the signalman a clear view down the gradient towards Wall ...
Train on the Churnet Branch Line
The train is on Cauldon Branch from Leek Brook Junction and is passing the former site of Winkhill Station heading towards Leek Brook and Stoke. It has stone on board from the Cauldon Lowe quarry.
In ...
Trucks leaving a pot bank
Trucks leave a pot bank fully laden with pallets and crates of wares.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
Two girls at Froghall
Two girls at Froghall, during the mid-1940s.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
Uttoxeter Carnival
A carnival character in fancy dress exchanges a model train with a member of the station staff, watched by children, parents and colleagues.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet ...
Uttoxeter fruit market
This image captures the bustle of business at Uttoxeter fruit market in around 1920.
Motor and horse-drawn vehicles laden with produce vie for the attention of busy shoppers in bowler hats and flat ...
Uttoxeter station
Pictured here in around 1960, Uttoxeter remained an important junction on the route of the old North Staffordshire Railway.
To the south - behind the camera - the line still runs around the edge of ...
Uttoxeter station
Two North Staffordshire Railway staff pose for a photograph at Uttoxeter station in around 1900.
This station was an important junction for trains to Stoke, Derby, Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Ashbourne, ...
Uttoxeter Station
A local train pulls into Uttoxeter station on a bright spring day in 1915.
This train, pulled by a small tank engine, could be terminating here, or it could be travelling on to Ashbourne and Buxton. ...
Uttoxeter station football team
Twelve members of the Uttoxeter station football team pose for a photograph during the 1960s.
This image is included by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
Village store and coffee house, Oakamoor
During the 1890s, this building doubled as both a village store and coffee house, serving the village of Oakamoor.
It must have been quite a novelty for such a small village to have a coffee house; ...
Water troughs
A Colwyn Bay to Walsall express train passes over the water troughs at Whitmore in the Autumn of 1933.
Many steam engines were fitting with scoops on their tenders, allowing them to replenish their ...
Whitmore troughs. Circa 1930.
A fine view of the water troughs at Whitmore level on the Stafford-Crewe section of the former London & North Western Railway Co metals.
A mixed goods train speeds through, but not taking on water. ...