Potteries Loop Line

v t e Potteries Loop Line
Legend
West Coast Main Line to Congleton Mow Cop and Scholar Green Crewe–Derby line to Crewe Kidsgrove Central Kidsgrove Liverpool Road Closed 1964 Market Street Halt Closed 1950 Kidsgrove (Harecastle North) Tunnel 130 yd 119 m Kidsgrove (Harecastle South) Tunnel 1766 yd 1615 m Goldenhill Tunnel Newchapel and Goldenhill Closed 1964 Pitts Hill Closed 1964 Tunstall Closed 1964 Pinnox branch Burslem Closed 1964 Cobridge Closed 1964 Longport Cobridge Tunnel Waterloo Road Closed 1943 Hanley Closed 1964 Etruria junction Etruria Closed 2005 Cliffe Vale Halt Closed 1865 Newcastle Junction closed line to Newcastle-under-Lyme Stoke-on-Trent West Coast Main Line to Stone

The Potteries Loop Line was a railway line that connected Stoke-on-Trent to Mow Cop and Scholar Green via Hanley, Burslem, Tunstall and Kidsgrove. It ran between Staffordshire and Cheshire in England. It served three of the six towns of Stoke on Trent (Hanley, Burslem and Tunstall). It was opened in many short sections due to the cost of railway construction during the 1870s. The line throughout was sanctioned but the North Staffordshire Railway felt that the line would be unimportant enough to abandon part way through its construction. This upset residents of the towns through which the line was planned to pass and they eventually petitioned Parliament to force the completion of the route.^[1]

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  Stoke Station 1965
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  Burslem Station 1962