Barnard Castle | |
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General information | |
Location | Barnard Castle England |
Grid reference | NZ053169 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
Key dates | |
9 July 1856 | 1st station opened |
1 May 1862 | 1st station closed |
1965 | Closed to freight |
30 November 1964 | 2nd station closed |
Barnard Castle railway station was situated on the South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway between Bishop Auckland and Kirkby Stephen East. The railway station served the town of Barnard Castle.
The first station (at grid reference NZ053169 ) opened to passenger traffic on 9 July 1856, and was closed to passengers on 1 May 1862 when services were diverted to the second station which had opened in 1861. Freight traffic continued to use the first station until 1965.
The second station closed to passengers on 30 November 1964.
Today the site of the second station is a car park for the nearby GlaxoSmithKline factory. The first station has been converted into private houses [1] and the first station's portico now resides in Valley Gardens in Saltburn. [2]
The Eden Valley Railway (EVR) was a railway in Cumbria, England. It ran between Clifton Junction near Penrith and Kirkby Stephen via Appleby-in-Westmorland.
Bishop Auckland is a railway station that serves the market town of Bishop Auckland in County Durham, North East England, 11 miles 77 chains (19.3 km) north-west of Darlington. The station is the Western terminus of the Tees Valley Line, which links it to Saltburn via Darlington. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
The South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway (SD&LUR) built a railway line linking the Stockton and Darlington Railway near Bishop Auckland with the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway at Tebay, via Barnard Castle, Stainmore Summit and Kirkby Stephen. The line opened in 1861 and became known as the Stainmore Line.
Bowes railway station was situated on the South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway between Barnard Castle and Kirkby Stephen East.
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Mickleton railway station was situated on the Tees Valley Railway between Barnard Castle and Middleton-in-Teesdale. It served the village of Mickleton. The station opened to passenger traffic on 12 May 1868, and closed on 30 November 1964. The site, to the south of the village, now serves as a car parking area for walkers using the Tees Valley Railway walk.
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Piercebridge railway station was a railway station serving the village of Piercebridge in County Durham, England. It was located on the Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway. The station opened in 1856 and closed completely as part of the Beeching cuts in 1965.
Kilton Viaduct was a railway viaduct that straddled Kilton Beck, near to Loftus, in North Yorkshire, England. The viaduct was opened to traffic in 1867, however in 1911, with the viaduct suffering subsidence from the nearby ironstone mining, the whole structure was encased in waste material from the mines creating an embankment which re-opened fully to traffic in 1913. The railway closed in 1963, but then in 1974, it re-opened as part of the freight line to Boulby Mine carrying potash traffic.
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Broomielaw | North Eastern Railway Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway | Terminus | ||
Lartington | North Eastern Railway South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway | Cockfield Fell | ||
Terminus | North Eastern Railway Tees Valley Railway | Cotherstone |
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