Callerton railway station

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Callerton
Location Woolsington, Newcastle upon Tyne
England
Coordinates 55°01′43″N1°42′16″W / 55.0287°N 1.7045°W / 55.0287; -1.7045 Coordinates: 55°01′43″N1°42′16″W / 55.0287°N 1.7045°W / 55.0287; -1.7045
Grid reference NZ189705
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company North Eastern Railway
Pre-groupingNorth Eastern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 June 1905 (1905-06-01)Opened
17 June 1929Closed to passengers
29 November 1965 (1965-11-29)Closed to freight

Callerton was a railway station on the Ponteland Railway, which ran between South Gosforth and Ponteland, with a sub-branch line to Darras Hall. The station served Woolsington in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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The station was opened on 1 June 1905, by the North Eastern Railway. The original station building was destroyed by fire in March 1915, and was later replaced by a replica.

In 1913, goods traffic arriving at the station included potatoes, livestock, hay and clover. [1]

History

The Gosforth and Ponteland Light Railway was formed in 1899, under the Light Railways Act of 1896. Construction of the line by the North Eastern Railway was authorised by Parliament in February 1901.

In March 1905, the 7-mile section from South Gosforth to Ponteland was opened to goods traffic, with passenger services commencing in June 1905. [2]

A 11⁄4-mile extension of the branch line to the garden city of Darras Hall in Northumberland, known as the Little Callerton Railway, was authorised in 1909. Unlike the Gosforth and Ponteland Light Railway, the extension was not constructed as a light railway. Passenger services commenced between Ponteland and Darras Hall in October 1913. [3]

In 1922, the branch line was served by six weekday passenger trains, with an additional train running on Saturday. Only three trains ran through to Darras Hall. [4]

As a result of poor passenger numbers, the station, along with the branch line closed to passengers on 17 June 1929. [5] The station remained open for goods traffic, before closing altogether on 29 November 1965. The station was demolished almost entirely by 1973. [1]

Tyne and Wear Metro

In May 1981, a section of the former branch line was reopened in stages between South Gosforth and Bank Foot, as part of the Tyne and Wear Metro network. [6] The line was later extended from Bank Foot to Newcastle Airport in November 1991, with an intermediate station at Callerton Parkway. [7] [8] The current station at Callerton Parkway is situated near to the site of the former at Callerton.

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References

  1. 1 2 Young, Alan (17 May 2017). "Disused Stations: Callerton". Disused Stations. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Quick, Michael (2009). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: A Chronology. Railway and Canal Historical Society. pp. 103, 131, 142, 234, 326 and 421. ISBN   978-0901461575.
  3. ↑ Quick, Michael (2009). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: A Chronology. Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 142. ISBN   978-0901461575.
  4. ↑ Bradshaw's Railway Guide (Reprint ed.). London: Guild Publishing. 1985 [1922].
  5. ↑ Quick, Michael (2009). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: A Chronology. Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 103. ISBN   978-0901461575.
  6. ↑ Hoole, Ken (1987). The North Eastern Electrics. The Oakwood Press. ISBN   0 85361 358 3.
  7. ↑ "Metro's airport extension celebrates its 25th year". Nexus. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  8. ↑ Houlison, Sam (16 November 2016). "The Metro to the airport opened 25 years ago". ChronicleLive. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Ponteland   North Eastern Railway
Ponteland Railway 		  Kenton Bank
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