Plashetts railway station

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Plashetts
Location
Place	Plashetts
Area	Northumberland
Grid reference	NY666902
Operations
Original company	Border Counties Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway North Eastern Region of British Railways
Platforms	1
History
2 September 1861	Station opened
15 October 1956	Station closed to passengers
1 September 1958	Station closed to freight
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Border Counties Railway

Locale	Roxburghshire, Scotland; Northumberland, England
Dates of operation	31 July 1854 – 13 August 1860
Successor	North British Railway
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8¹⁄₂ in)

Legend

Border Union Railway

Riccarton Junction

Border Union Railway

Saughtree

Scotland

England

Plashetts Colliery Waggonway

Falstone

Thorneyburn

Tarset

Charlton

Bellingham, later Bellingham (North Tyne)

Wansbeck Railway

Reedsmouth

Wark

Barrasford

Chollerton

Chollerford (renamed Humshaugh in 1919)^[1]

Wall

Newcastle and Carlisle Railway

Border Counties Bridge

Border Counties Junction

Hexham

Newcastle and Carlisle Railway

Plashetts railway station is a closed stone built railway station that served the mining hamlet of Plashetts, in Northumberland, England, which is now beneath the surface of Kielder Water.

History

Plashetts 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. The line was closed to passengers by British Railways in 1956.

The station had a single platform and a tall signal box.^[2] This was a fairly substantial station having a waggonway branch, which ran from here up Slater's incline, to the Plashetts and Far Colliery. To the north of the station were one or two houses and at the end of the waggonway a miners' village.

The station is now submerged beneath Kielder Water.

Former services

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Lewiefield Halt		LNER Border Counties Railway		Falstone

References

↑ Sewell, G. W. M. (1993). The North British Railway in Northumberland (reprint). Baunton, Devon, England: Merlin Books Limited. p. 26. ISBN 0-86303-613-9.
↑ http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/p/plashetts/index.shtml

External links

Coordinates: 55°12′15″N 2°31′37″W / 55.2042°N 2.5270°W / 55.2042; -2.5270

v t e Closed railway stations in Northumberland

Kelso Branch	Velvet Hall Norham Twizell Coldstream Sunilaws

Cornhill Branch	Mindrum Kirknewton (Northumberland) Akeld Wooler Ilderton Wooperton Hedgeley Glanton Whittingham (Northumberland) Edlingham Halt

York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway	Tweedmouth Scremerston Goswick Beal Smeafield Cragg Mill Belford (Northumberland) Lucker Newham Christon Bank Little Mill Longhoughton Lesbury Alnwick Chevington Longhirst Stannington Plessey Dudley Colliery

Amble branch line	Amble Broomhill (Northumberland)

North Sunderland Railway	Seahouses North Sunderland

Border Counties Railway	Deadwater Kielder Lewiefield Halt Plashetts Falstone Thorneyburn Tarset Charlton (Northumberland) Bellingham (North Tyne) Reedsmouth Countess Park Wark Barrasford Chollerton Humshaugh Wall

Wansbeck Railway	Woodburn Knowesgate Scotsgap Middleton North Angerton Meldon

Northumberland Central Railway	Rothbury Brinkburn Fontburn Halt Ewesley Longwitton

Blyth and Tyne Railway	Hepscott Choppington North Seaton Ashington Newbiggin-by-the-Sea Bedlington Bebside Blyth Newsham Hartley The Avenue Seaton Delaval Seghill

Ponteland Railway	Ponteland Darras Hall Callerton Kenton Bank

Newcastle and Carlisle Railway	Gilsland Greenhead Fourstones Warden Mickley

Alston Line	Featherstone Park Coanwood Lambley Slaggyford

Hexham and Allendale Railway	Elrington Halt Langley-on-Tyne Staward Halt Allendale

Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway	North Wylam Heddon-on-the-Wall

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