Where is Consett railway station?

Consett railway station is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.8510°, -1.8273°.

Heritage railway stations · North East England

Consett railway station

Consett railway station in England North East, United Kingdom.

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Consett railway station is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Consett was a railway station built by the North Eastern Railway on the route of the Stanhope and Tyne Railway, in County Durham, North East England. It served the industrial town of Consett from 1896 until 1980.

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History

Opened on 17 August 1896 by the North Eastern Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the North Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was not the first station to serve the town, as one had been opened by the NER in 1862 as the terminus of its Lanchester Valley Railway from . That station lasted only five years, as the LVR was extended northwards to Newcastle via & and a new station was opened at Benfieldside on the northern edge of the town. This was renamed "Consett" in 1882 and again to "Consett & Blackhill" (as it was closer to the latter community) in 1885, before eventually…

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