Leekbrook Tunnel
A Standard Class 2 locomotive, number 75035, emerges from Leekbrook tunnel in Staffordshire during the 1960s.
Despite closure to goods traffic in 1988, this stretch of line through the Churnet Valley ...
Longton Railway Station
An aerial photograph taken on the 22 September 1961 from the top of Harvey’s chimney shows a steam locomotive leaving Longton Railway Station. Longton Station opened on the Crewe-Derby line of the North ...
Longton Station, Baths Road, Longton
Longton Station was opened in August 1848 and stood on the Crewe-Derby line of the North Staffordshire Railway.
Mixed goods passing Norton Bridge
This photograph shows a LNWR 4-6-0 engine hauling a rake of mixed goods in the vicinity of Norton Bridge on the "down" Stafford to Crewe line.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet ...
North Staffordshire Railway locomotive and crew
Rushton station, around 1915.
There would appear to be more than the required crew compliment for this engine!
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
North Staffordshire Railway staff
Train crew and station staff of the North Staffordshire Railway pose for the camera in front of their locomotive.
Three of the pictured staff are teenagers, who would have begun their careers after ...
North Staffordshire Railway steam locomotive
A North Staffordshire Railway 2-4-2 steam locomotive, pictured in around 1900.
This engine would have been built at the North staffordshire Railway's own works at Stoke.
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North Staffordshire Railway steam locomotive
North Staffordshire Railway 2-4-0 steam locomotive number 46 stands at Uttoxeter station in 1900.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
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Many rural passenger services were withdrawn during the 1960s, and stations like Alton were closed.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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rhyl express at Leek station
At Leek station on 15 June 1957, an unidentified 'Crab' 2-6-0 Mogul works its way to the front of the train, ready to take a trainful of passengers to the coast at Rhyl.
The locomotive probably owes ...
Royal Scot
'Royal Scot' 4-6-0 locomotive number 6166, The London Rifle Brigade, pulls out of Whitmore after taking on an unexpected royal visitor in summer 1932.
A note on the back of the photograph tells us ...