The Pinnox railway branch officially called the Spur line
ran from Pinnox Junction to Tunstall Junction which was located just south of
Tunstall railway station.
The line was the lower of the two branch lines at Tunstall.
The Pinnox branch was connected to a nearby Colliery via the use of a private mineral line.
The Pinnox branch was originally constructed as a mineral line between Longport and Tunstall. The line after leaving the main line at Longport Junction ran past Westport Lake on an embankment before passing under Davenport Road and Westport Road. The branch passed the side of what is now Co-operative Academy at Brownhill. The junction with the
Potteries Loop Line
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 ...
was at Pinnox Junction, Tunstall.
Present
The line was lifted in the later 1960s after the line was used for the construction of the new
Harecastle Tunnel
Harecastle Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal in Staffordshire between Kidsgrove and Tunstall. The tunnel, which is long, was once one of the longest in the country. Its industrial purpose was for the transport of coal to ...
. The line was used as the diversion route from the Mainline at Longport to the loop line and back on the mainline north of Kidsgrove.
The only bit left is a short stub north of Longport station.
References
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North Staffordshire Railway
Rail transport in Stoke-on-Trent