Railways of Stoke-on-Trent - Potteries Loop Line
 

   


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Potteries Loop Line


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Burslem Station

"Burslem station was comparatively large with distinctive buildings, as befitted the 'Mother town', and on leaving it the line was carried on a high embankment, and then viaduct, as it wound and strode across the Pinnox Valley then, commencing its 1 in 90 climb towards Tunstall."

preface to "The Potteries Loop Line" - A.C. Baker

Burslem station on the Potteries Loop Line
Burslem station on the Potteries Loop Line

photo: Trevor Ford - taken in the early 1960's not long after the line closed 

 

side of Burslem station buildings
side of Burslem station buildings

© Birch-Holland Collection

 
Greenway at Burslem - following the route of the Loop Line
Greenway at Burslem - following the route of the Loop Line

photo: © Steve Lewin   May 2006


 



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