Barnard Castle railway station

Barnard Castle railway station in 1965

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 opened to passenger traffic on 9 July 1856, and was replaced with a new station on 1 May 1862 on a different site to facilitate the construction of the line beyond westwards. The second station closed to passengers on 30 November 1964. Freight traffic continued to use the first station until 1965.

References

Walton, Peter (1992). The Stainmore & Eden Valley Railways. Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 0-86093-306-7.
Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory Of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas And Gazetteer. Ian Allan Publishing. 1997 [1958]. ISBN 0-7110-0320-3.

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Barnard Castle station at Disused Stations

Preceding station		Following station
Broomielaw	Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway	Terminus
Lartington	South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway	Cockfield Fell
Terminus	Tees Valley Railway	Cotherstone

Coordinates: 54°33′11″N 1°55′16″W / 54.553°N 1.921°W / 54.553; -1.921

Closed railway stations in County Durham

Derwent Valley Railway	Lintz Green High Westwood Ebchester Shotley Bridge Blackhill Consett (DVR)

Stanhope and Tyne Railway NER Annfield Deviation	Burnhill Rowley Hownes Gill Consett Carr House Leadgate Pelton (S&T) Chester-le-Street (S&T) Durham Turnpike Annfield Plain West Stanley Beamish Pelton

Durham and Sunderland Railway	Haswell (D&S) South Hetton Murton Hetton Rainton Pittington Sherburn House Durham Elvet Shincliffe Town

Lanchester Valley Railway	Knitsley Lanchester Witton Gilbert Aldin Grange for Bearpark

Leamside Line	Fencehouses Leamside Frankland Belmont (County Durham) Gilesgate Sherburn Colliery Shincliffe

Wear Valley Railway	Wearhead St Johns Chapel Westgate-in-Weardale Eastgate Stanhope Frosterley Wolsingham Harperley Witton-le-Wear

Weardale Extension Railway	Crawley (Northumberland) Waskerley Salter's Gate Cottage High Stoop Tow Law

Clarence and Hartlepool Junction Railway	Coxhoe (WHHR) Coxhoe Bridge Spennymoor Trimdon West Cornforth Wingate

Deerness Valley Railway	Ushaw Moor Waterhouses (County Durham)

Durham to Bishop Auckland Line	Brandon Colliery Brancepeth Willington (County Durham) Hunwick

Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway	Crook Beechburn Wear Valley Junction South Church Tunnel Junction

East Coast Main Line	Plawsworth Croxdale Ferryhill Bradbury Aycliffe Croft Spa

Durham Coast Line	Seaham Harbour Easington Horden Blackhall Colliery Blackhall Rocks

Hartlepool Dock and Railway Stockton and Hartlepool Railway	Haswell Shotton Bridge Thornley Wellfield Castle Eden Hesleden Hart Hartlepool (HD&R) Stranton Greatham

Clarence Railway	Belasis Lane Billingham-on-Tees Ferryhill Haverton Hill Norton-on-Tees Norton Junction Port Clarence Redmarshall Sedgefield Stillington Stockton (Clarence) Westerton (County Durham)

Castle Eden Railway	Wellfield Hurworth Burn Wynyard (County Durham) Thorpe Thewles

Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway	Broomielaw Winston Gainford Piercebridge

South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway Stockton and Darlington Railway	Bowes Hulands Lartington Barnard Castle Cockfield Fell Haggerleases Lands Evenwood West Auckland Fighting Cocks Yarm Depots Stockton (S&D) Newport (Middlesbrough) Watson's Wharf

Tees Valley Railway	Middleton-in-Teesdale Mickleton Romaldkirk Cotherstone

Other	Byers Green Coundon Bowes Bridge Tanfield Lea North Stockton

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