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2. River Churnet - Wikipedia

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   The source of the river is located over 1,000 feet (300 m) above sea level in the Staffordshire moorlands, near the gritstone escarpment of the Roaches, and next to the A53 Leek to Buxton road, It is only a few hundred yards away from Black Brook which ultimately, through the Dane and Weaver, flows into the Irish Sea; however, the Churnet, through the Dove, Trent and Humber Estuary, ultimately ...

3. Kingsley and Froghall railway station - Wikipedia

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   Kingsley and Froghall station, situated on the Churnet Valley Line of the North Staffordshire Railway, was opened to both passengers and goods on 1 September 1849.. The station was a busy country station serving the needs of workers at nearby Thomas Bolton's copper refinery.

4. Ipstones - Wikipedia

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   The station was closed to passengers on 30 September 1935. The buildings have been demolished but heritage trains of the Churnet Valley Railway now use the line again and there have been proposals to restore mineral trains to Caldon Low. Ipstones has three pubs, a butcher's, a corner shop, an agricultural supplies store, a church and a primary ...

5. Froghall - Wikipedia

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   Froghall was formerly served by Kingsley and Froghall railway station, on the North Staffordshire Railway's Churnet Valley Line from North Rode to Uttoxeter via Leek.The line closed to passenger trains in the 1960s and completely closed to freight in 1988 with the transfer of the sand traffic from nearby Oakamoor to road haulage. [4]

6. Leek, Staffordshire - Wikipedia

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   The Churnet Valley line now operates as a heritage railway and is located to the south of the town; services run between Kingsley & Froghall and Ipstones. Another 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -mile (2.5-kilometre) section of the former trackbed is occupied by the Rudyard Lake Steam Railway , a 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 -inch-gauge (260-millimetre) tourist line which runs ...

7. The Old Furnace - Wikipedia

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   The furnace was situated in the Churnet Valley in the Staffordshire moorlands. A later Elizabethan-era blast furnace once stood on the site of the present Old Furnace Cottage. That furnace, the first in the north of England, [ 1 ] was constructed in 1592 by Lawrence Loggin. [ 2 ]

8. List of Great Central Railway locomotives and rolling stock

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   It was moved to the Churnet Valley Railway in 2003, work began on its traction generator. In 2007 it moved to Ruddington via Rushcliffe Halt, shortly after the Class 20s at the centre. Work is progressing to return it to traffic with an in-built steam boiler. BR Blue with full yellow ends. English Electric Preservation. 1961 No. 1705 ...

9. Churnet Valley Railway - Wikipedia

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   The Churnet Valley Railway is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway in the Staffordshire Moorlands of Staffordshire, England. It operates on part of the former Churnet Valley Line which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway. The railway is roughly 10.5 miles (16.9 km) long from Kingsley and Froghall to Ipstones.