Bowes railway station

Bowes
The remains of Bowes railway station in 1996.
Location
Place	Bowes
Area	County Durham
Operations
Original company	SD&LUR
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
1861	Opened
1962	Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
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Bowes railway station was situated on the South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway between Barnard Castle and Kirkby Stephen East. It served the village of Bowes. The station opened to passenger traffic on 26 March 1861, and closed on 22 January 1962.

The site today

The station buildings are now (2008) in an extreme state of dereliction. A large farm shed covers a portion of the platforms and yard.

The signal box, which for many years after closure was hidden away inside the farm shed, was dismantled by the Eden Valley Railway on 10 and 11 May 1997,^[1] and is in storage, awaiting reconstruction at some future point along their line.

The trackbed westwards of the station (towards Stainmore Summit) is covered by the re-aligned A66 road.

Images

Bowes signal box in 1996.
The station in 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.

↑ Edition 9, Summer 1997, 'Online' - The Official Journal Of The Eden Valley Railway Society

External links

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Barras		South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway		Lartington

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

Coordinates: 54°31′11″N 2°00′27″W / 54.5197°N 2.0076°W / 54.5197; -2.0076

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