Saughtree railway station

Saughtree
General information
Location	Saughtree, Roxburghshire Scotland
Grid reference	NY564981
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Border Counties Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway North Eastern Region of British Railways
Key dates
1862	Station opened
1 December 1944	Station closed to passengers
23 August 1948	Station reopens to passengers
15 October 1956	Station closed to passengers
1 September 1958	Station closed to freight
Location

Border Counties Railway
Overview
Status	Closed
Locale	Roxburghshire, Scotland Northumberland, England
Service
Type	Heavy rail
History
Commenced	11 December 1855
Opened	2 April 1858 (1858-04-02)
Completed	24 June 1862
Merged into	North British Railway - 1860
Merged into	London North Eastern Railway - 1923
Merged into	British Railways - 1948
Closed	1 September 1958 (1958-09-01) (except Reedsmouth–Bellingham, closed 11 November  1963)
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Route map Legend Waverley Route to Edinburgh Riccarton Junction Waverley Route to Carlisle Saughtree Scotland England Deadwater Kielder Lewiefield Halt Plashetts Plashetts Colliery Waggonway portion of line flooded by Kielder Water Falstone Thorneyburn Tarset Charlton Bellingham Wansbeck Railway to Morpeth Reedsmouth Countess Park (1859–1861) Wark Barrasford Chollerton Chollerford (later Humshaugh) Wall Newcastle and Carlisle Railway to Carlisle Border Counties Bridge Border Counties Junction Hexham Newcastle and Carlisle Railway to Newcastle

Saughtree railway station is a closed railway station situated a mile north of the hamlet of Saughtree and two miles from the border with England. ^[1]

History

Saughtree railway station was on the Border Counties Railway which linked the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, near Hexham, with the Border Union Railway at Riccarton Junction. The first section of the route was opened between Hexham and Chollerford in 1858, the remainder opening in 1862. Services to the station were never frequent, due to its remote location (the nearest settlement being a mile distant) – only a single train each way was timetabled to call on Mondays, Thursdays & Saturdays, to allow the handful of regular passengers to travel to Hawick to shop. The service was suspended altogether on 1 December 1944 as a wartime economy measure, eventually being reinstated in August 1948. ^[1]

The line was closed to passengers by British Railways in October 1956 ^[2] and completely two years later. The station had a single platform, a stone-built station building, and a siding.

The station building and platform have been restored and 400 yards of new track laid. ^[1]

Former Services

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Riccarton Junction		London and North Eastern Railway Border Counties Railway		Deadwater

References

1. "Disused Stations - Saughtree" Disused Stations Site Record; Retrieved 17 May 2016
2. Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 379. OCLC   931112387.

External links

• Saughtree Station on Disused Stations
• Saughtree Station on Northumbrian Railways
• Saughtree Station on a navigable 1945 O. S. map

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