Ian Allan Potteries Express, Leek
This photograph shows the rear end of the Ian Allan Potteries Express train, hauled by a 2-6-0 steam engine No 42922 at Leek station. The train full of railway enthusiasts stopped here for a while to ...
Inmates at Cheddleton Asylum
"Inmates" at Cheddleton Asylum were encouraged to take part in games and physical training as part of their treatment.
Teamwork games such as netball would help secure friendship and be of benefit ...
J Hewitt Sons works, Fenton.
Joseph Hewitt & Co. operated the Fenton Low Brick and Marl work was alongside the Biddulph Valley and Leek branch of the old North Staffordshire Railway. The line opened in 1859 and was finally closed ...
Kingsley and Froghall Station
A British Railways passenger service hauled by Fowler 4P locomotive number 42454 stands at Kingsley and Froghall Station in 1960.
This image is taken from the collection of the Churnet Valley Railway....
Knotty Rail Motor
Early attempts at motorising the railways met with varying degrees of success.
Built by Beyer & Peacock, the Knotty Rail Motor combined a locomotive and carriage in one unit.
The North Staffordshire ...
Leek goods yard
A dirty Standard Class 4 locomotive numbered 75030 pulls away from Leek yard in Staffordshire with an empty load of wagons.
This picture was taken in 1966 when steam was becoming a rarer sight on Britain's ...
Leek New Road at Daisy Bank Bridge, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking south west from close to the Daisy Bank Bridge along the A53 (Leek New Road) with Sneyd Green to the left and Holden Bridge in the centre distance. The photograph was taken from near Bellerton ...
Leek railway station
A passenger service leaves Leek station on a wet day in 1960.
Leek, in Staffordshire, was a mill town, hence one of the tall factory chimmneys still standing.
The station is now the site of Morrisons ...
Leek railway station under demolition
Leek railway station was demolished in 1973 after passenger services were withdrawn. As with many former Knotty railway station sites this one was bought by the supermarket chain Safeway (now Morrisons). ...
Leek Road, Hanley
This photograph was taken from the Heath House Lane bridge over the Stoke to Leek and Biddulph branch line. The camera is looking south in what Bert Bentley described as "putrid light". On the left is ...
Leek station
A British Railways Ivatt Class 2, number 46430, pictured at Leek station, Staffordshire in June 1957.
Leek station had a goods yard, and all manner of goods passed through, from coal mined in the Potteries ...
Leek Tunnel
This picture shows a view looking north towards the tunnel at Leek. Taken from the water tower at the north end of the up platform, you can clearly see the gas holder that served the town with gas. The ...
Leekbrook asylum line
The Leekbrook asylum line. Passengers, nurses and inmates switched from mainline trains to the asylum's own electric railway here for the short one mile ride to the hospital.
This image is taken from ...
Leekbrook Junction
Leekbrook Junction acted as a station for the local asylum. This line was never electrified, but the asylum train was electric. Patients had to alight the steam train and get onto the asylum train waiting ...
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 ...
Level crossing on Scotia Road, Tunstall
The photograph was taken from close to the corner of King William Street and Scotia Road, looking southwards. In the centre are the level crossing gates allowing the Chatterley Whitfield mineral railway ...
Level crossing on the Birches Head Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Level Crossing and crossing house at Birches Head Road on the Biddulph Vlalley/Stoke to Leek branch line. The camera is looking south. Birches Head road was known as Horse Lane until the 1920s. The Caldon ...
Locomotive, possibly at Meir
A 2-4-0 engine with a train of second and third class carriages on the Stoke to Derby line, possibly at Meir station circa 1900.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway....