Barnard Castle railway station

Barnard Castle railway station in 1953

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 (at grid reference NZ053169) opened to passenger traffic on 9 July 1856, and was closed to passengers on 1 May 1862 when services were diverted to the second station which had opened in 1861. Freight traffic continued to use the first station until 1965.

Barnard Castle railway station in 1965

The second station closed to passengers on 30 November 1964.

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.

External links

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 and Beamish Deviations	Burnhill Rowley Hownes Gill Consett Carr House Leadgate Pelton (S&T) Durham Turnpike Annfield Plain West Stanley Beamish Pelton
Durham and Sunderland Railway NER Elvet Branch	Murton South Hetton Haswell (D&S) Hetton Rainton Pittington Sherburn House Shincliffe Town Durham Elvet
Lanchester Valley Railway	Knitsley Lanchester Witton Gilbert Aldin Grange for Bearpark
Leamside line	Fencehouses Leamside Frankland Belmont (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
Great North of England, Clarence and Hartlepool Junction Railway	West Cornforth Coxhoe Bridge Trimdon 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 Hall Dene Seaham Harbour Hawthorn Tower Halt Easington Horden Blackhall Colliery Blackhall Rocks
Hartlepool Dock and Railway Stockton and Hartlepool Railway	Haswell Shotton Bridge Thornley Wellfield Castle Eden Hesleden Hart Hartlepool (Headland) Greatham
Clarence Railway Simpasture Branch Port Clarence Branch Byers Green Branch and NER Extension	Coxhoe (WHHR) Ferryhill Sedgefield Stillington Redmarshall Norton Junction Stockton (Clarence) Simpasture Demons Bridge Norton-on-Tees Billingham-on-Tees Belasis Lane Haverton Hill Port Clarence Coundon Byers Green Spennymoor
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
Tanfield Waggonway	Tanfield Lea Bowes Bridge

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