 Also opened in the nineteenth century was the only NSR line to achieve any degree of fame , the Potteries Loop Line from Etruria via Hanley , Cobridge , Burslem , Tunstall , Pitts Hill , Newchapel and Goldenhill to Kidsgrove Liverpool Rd . Authorised in stages in 1864 – 5 , it opened to traffic in 1873 . Its fame came from several mentions and a description of a journey on a Burslem to Hanley train in Arnold Bennett 's The Old Wives ' Tale . 
