Where is Crook railway station?

Crook railway station is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.7156°, -1.7446°.

Heritage railway stations · North East England

Crook railway station

Crook railway station in England North East, United Kingdom.

Masonic Hall, Church Street, Crook - geograph.org.uk - 5864716 — Andrew Curtis — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Crook 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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From the Wikipedia article

Crook railway station served the town of Crook, County Durham, England. It was located on the Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway line from Bishop Auckland to Blackhill between Wear Valley Junction and Tow Law.

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Background

History

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.…

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