Tag: Birchenwood

A Polluted Stream at Birchenwood

Showing a stream polluted by water from old coal and iron stone mines and fly tipping next to the route followed by the North Staffordshire Railway's 'loop line' at Birchenwood nr. Kidsgrove (1994).

This image was taken at Birchenwood near Kidsgrove in 1994. It shows a polluted stream. The stream ran next to the route followed by the North Staffordshire Railway Company’s ‘loop line’. The line closed in the 1960s. It ran from Etruria to Kidsgrove. There were stations at Hanley, Waterloo Road, Cobridge, Burslem, Tunstall, Pitts Hill and Goldenhill.