Still on Victoria Road and just above the Royal Doulton factory shop and opposite the Portmeirion Factory Shop is an old railway line tunnel.

This is the continuation of the old Stoke - Biddulph line which was last used as a mineral line to the Churnet Valley

The railway line opened in 1867 to the Churnet Valley line at Leekbrook, south of Leek. The line continued in use as a mineral line until 1989.