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Tunstall - Pinnox Junction
Pinnox sidings on the Loop Line
Pinnox has always been a most important outpost of Whitfield. Seen here
Pinnox sidings, full of coal wagons looking towards Pinnox Crossing, with
the classic potteries background of ‘forests’ of bottle ovens.
Pinnox Junction -
c.1900-1910
A North Stafford Railway
locomotive is shown here, about to leave Pinnox Junction with coal from
Whitfield Colliery around the turn of the 20th century.
To the right, the Tunstall Lower Branch railway from Longport to Tunstall
Junction on the Loop Line and bridge carrying the Whitfield line from
Pinnox to Greenhead Wharf.
photo: © Keele University
- William Jack Collection
Whitfield colliery
Looking towards Whitfield
colliery with the dirt tip in the centre background and the landmark 225ft
chimney in the left background, and houses on both sides of the railway
line
photos: ©
Staffordshire Past tracks
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