Links to related sites

Railway and Industrial History - a selection of relevant sites

North Staffordshire Railway
Find out about the NSR and joining the North Staffordshire Railway Study Group

Midland Railway
Find out about the MR and joining the Midland Railway Society

London & North Western Railway
Find out about the LNWR and joining the London & North Western Railway Society

London Midland & Scottish Railway
Find out about the LMS and 40 years of research by The LMS Society

War Department Saddletanks
Devoted to "Austerity" 0-6-0STs including Foxfield's "Whiston" and "Wimblebury"

Coal Mining in North Staffordshire
Part of the Staffordshire Multimedia Archive offers a fine selection of photographs

Foxfield Colliery
Foxfield Colliery photos and information, part of a North Staffordshire collieries site
Photographs of the surviving headgear at Foxfield Colliery in 2001

The Cheadle Railway
Draycott's Railway History provides an overview of the nearby Cheadle Railway
Draycott Cross Colliery and the Cheadle Branch Railway underground survey site.

Railway Preservation

Railway Carriage Preservation and Restoration
A very practical forum at the Yahoo group "railc" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railc/

Vintage Railway Carriage related sites 
A good selection at the Vintage Railway Carriage Webring

Locating preserved carriages in the UK
A superb resource inthe Railway Carriage Register. 

A selection of preserved railways and museums nearby, or with similar aims and collections to Foxfield

Bowes Railway, Gateshead, a scheduled ancient monument, preserving rope haulage of wagons on a balanced incline

Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, a superb collection of restored locomotives and stock at Quainton Road station

Chasewater Railway, Brownhills, near Walsall, passenger sevices on a former NCB railway

Churnet Valley Railway, Cheddleton, Consall and Kingsley & Froghall stations beautifully preserved on the NSR line just over the hill from Foxfield

Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, Embsay station, a branch line railway with lots of former indutrial locomotives

Middleton Railway, Leeds, one of the first preserved industrial railways, in the shadow of the former Hunslet locomotive works

Railway Age, Crewe, maintaining the railway traditions of the famous town and home of several restored mainline locomotives

Rutland Railway Museum, Cottesmore, Oakham, Rutland, with a fine collection of locomotives and rolling stock

Tanfield Railway, Gateshead, preserving a typical North East industrial railway, with traditional wooden carriages

Telford Steam Railway, Horsehay, Telford, 20 miles west of Wolverhampton, a small friendly volunteer-run steam railway

Vintage Carriages Trust, superb collection of finely restored carriages at Ingrow station on K&WVR, West Yorkshire

Photo Albums of Foxfield Railway Events

UK Railway Photographic Gallery: Foxfield's Millennium Meltdown 1999, Shelton Steelworks 2000, Gala 2000, Steam 'n' Snow 2000, Gala 2002, Colliery Opening 2002, and Gala 2003, and Pannier NCB 7754.

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