Crook railway station

The Stockton and Darlington Railway backed Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway had received Parliamentary backing to build a railway from via to the town of Crook in 1842. The line was duly completed the following year, with trains running as far as Bishop Auckland from 30 January 1843 and through to Crook from 8 November that year (albeit for goods traffic only). The exact opening date for passenger traffic isn't known, though authorisation was granted on 3 January 1844 for services to begin – these ran initially on Thursdays-only to serve the Crook town market day (being so listed in the July 1844 issue of Bradshaw's Railway Guide), but by January 1845 the station was in full-time use.…

No trace of the station remains today - all of the buildings were demolished and the area cleared after the track was removed in 1967–8. The re-aligned B6298 road now uses the route of the old railway trackbed through the town, whilst a doctor's surgery occupies part of the station site. The formation of the Deerness Valley line from the outskirts of the town has been converted into a footpath & cycleway