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©Geoff Pick
Dist:0.3km<br/>The River Trent meanders by about fifty metres off to the right, behind the hedge.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.3km<br/>The line from Stoke was originally part of the North Staffordshire Railway network, established in the 1840s. The line carried its last traffic, limestone from Caldon Low, in 1989. It is officially "mothballed", which is why the tracks are still in place. Various proposals to reopen the line have come and gone but there is still the possibility that the line will be resurrected, some day.
©Ian Calderwood
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking towards Leek and Cauldon. This line is soon to be re-opened if the Moorland and City Railways Co succeed in their plans. It was part of the North Staffordshire Railway from Stoke towards Congleton, with a branch near Milton going to Cauldon Low Quarry and Leek. The line closed for freight in 1988 http://www.mcrailways.co.uk/
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.3km<br/>Crossing the bridge over the Caldon Canal. This line is soon to be re-opened if the Moorland and City Railways Co succeed in their plans. It was part of the North Staffordshire Railway from Stoke towards Congleton, with a branch near Milton going to Cauldon Low Quarry and Leek. The line closed for freight in 1988. http://www.mcrailways.co.uk/
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.3km<br/>Crossing the bridge over the Caldon canal. This line is soon to be re-opened if the Moorland and City Railways Co succeed in their plans. It was part of the North Staffordshire Railway from Stoke towards Congleton, with a branch near Milton going to Cauldon Low quarry. http://www.mcrailways.co.uk/
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.3km<br/>This line is soon to be re-opened if the Moorland and City Railways Co succeed in their plans. It was part of the North Staffordshire Railway from Stoke towards Congleton, with a branch near Milton going to Cauldon Low Quarry and Leek. The line closed for freight in 1988. http://www.mcrailways.co.uk/
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.3km<br/>Off to the right is the Trent Valley, with the river meandering about fifty metres away. Bridge No 14A carries a disused railway line, soon to be re-opened if the Moorland and City Railways Co succeed in their plans. It was part of the North Staffordshire Railway from Stoke towards Congleton, and a branch to Cauldon Low quarry. http://www.mcrailways.co.uk/
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.3km<br/>Off to the right is the Trent Valley, with the river meandering about fifty metres away. Bridge No 14A carries a disused railway line, soon to be re-opened if the Moorland and City Railways Co succeed in their plans. It was part of the North Staffordshire Railway from Stoke towards Congleton, and a branch to Cauldon Low quarry. http://www.mcrailways.co.uk/
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking towards Stoke. This line is soon to be re-opened if the Moorland and City Railways Co succeed in their plans. It was part of the North Staffordshire Railway from Stoke towards Congleton, with a branch near Milton going to Cauldon Low Quarry and Leek. The line closed for freight in 1988. http://www.mcrailways.co.uk/
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking towards Stoke. This line is soon to be re-opened if the Moorland and City Railways Co succeed in their plans. It was part of the North Staffordshire Railway from Stoke towards Congleton, with a branch near Milton going to Cauldon Low Quarry and Leek. The line closed for freight in 1988 http://www.mcrailways.co.uk/
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.3km<br/>Seen from a narrowboat on the canal, this line, opened in 1849 and closed in 1988, still has the track in place on the embankment among the trees and other undergrowth. Re-opening soon from Stoke to Leek, and also Cauldon Low Quarry, is planned by the newly formed Moorland and City Railways Co. The eight mile section to the quarry is already in use.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.3km<br/>The River Trent meanders northwards through scrub and grass land about fifty metres off to the right. The former railway from Stoke to Leek and Cauldon Low runs through the trees on the left, beyond which is the housing estate at Birches Head. The Caldon Branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal opened in 1779. It runs eighteen miles from Etruria in Stoke-on-Trent, where it leaves the Trent and Mersey Canal. It terminates at Froghall about five miles south-east of Cheddleton. The canal has seventeen locks and the 69 metre long very low Froghall Tunnel, unusable by many narrowboats. The canal did originally continue through to Uttoxeter, but the section beyond Froghall was closed by the late 1840s, much of its course being filled in to construct a railway.
©Roger Kidd
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©Phil Eptlett
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©Roger Kidd

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