Looking west from Hollywall Lane, Goldenhill
The view west from Hollywall Lane over the entrance to the old Harecastle railway tunnel. The houses in the foreground are on Boathorse Road (or Lane) and beyond the house and barns of Yeld Hill Farm. ...
North Street, Stoke-on-Trent
A view along North Street from the entrance to the railway goods yard. To the left is Cliff Vale Terrace (now part of North Street) with the light of the goods yard to the right. This is now the route ...
Rocester Station on the Churnet Valley line
Once rail services were withdrawn in the 1960s, many railway buildings became neglected and derelict, as seen here at Rocester.
Only a few railway workers houses remain as private dwellings.
However, ...
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 ...
Royal Scot express at speed
During the 1930s, the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) prided itself on its swift service between London and Scotland.
A spirit of intense competition with their east coast counterparts, the ...
Sacred Heart Church from the Scotia Lane area, Tunstall
The camera is looking north east from the area of the Scotia Colliery spoil tip towards the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church on Queen's Avenue in Tunstall. The photographer, Bert Bentley, noted that ...
The Lancer at speed
'Royal Scot' 4-6-0 locomotive number 6155, named The Lancer, pictured at speed on a summer's day in 1947.
The locomotive is passing Whitmore water troughs, at the summit of a gradient between Stafford ...
The main railway line near Harecastle
Looking north along the track of the old LMS line as it passes through Chatterley, taken from the Ravensdale Lane road bridge. The higher ground of Harecastle is straight ahead. This photograph was taken ...
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. ...