Plashetts railway station

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 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Waverley Route Riccarton Junction   Waverley Route Saughtree Scotland England Deadwater Kielder Lewiefield Halt Plashetts   Plashetts Colliery Waggonway Falstone Thorneyburn Tarset Charlton Bellingham, later Bellingham (North Tyne)   Wansbeck Railway Reedsmouth Countess Park (1859–1861) Wark Barrasford Chollerton Chollerford (renamed Humshaugh in 1919) Wall   Newcastle & Carlisle Railway Border Counties Bridge Border Counties Junction Hexham   Newcastle & 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 stages until completion 1862. The line was closed to passengers by British Railways in 1956.

The station had a single platform and a tall signal box.^[1] 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.

References

External links

• Plashetts Station on Disused Stations
• Plashetts Station on a navigable 1955 O. S. map

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