Heritage railway stations · North East England
Durham Gilesgate railway station
Durham Gilesgate railway station in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Durham Gilesgate 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
Durham (Gilesgate) railway station (when in passenger use known simply as Durham and later also as Durham Goods) served the Gilesgate area of Durham City in County Durham, North East England from 1844 to 1857 as the terminus of the Newcastle & Darlington Junction Railway Durham Branch passenger service (later to be incorporated into the Leamside line). Its life as a passenger station was short and it was quickly converted to goods station, a role which it played for more than a century.
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Background
History
The station opened on 15 April 1844 by the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway. It was adjacent to Gilesgate and Station Lane. This was the second of four railway stations built to serve Durham City, the first being Shincliffe (later being renamed Shincliffe Town) on the Durham & Sunderland Railway. Due to the inconvenient site of the station, it had a short lifespan, only being open for 13 years before closing to passengers on 1 April 1857, although it remained open for goods traffic. In the 1898 map the station was called Durham and Belmont - Goods Trains and in the 1913 Railway Clearing House map it was referred to as Durham Goods. There was a trainshed to the southeast of the…
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- Coordinates
- 54.7787, -1.5630
Sources
- wikidata: Q26455143 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Durham (Gilesgate) railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Durham Gilesgate railway station?
- Durham Gilesgate railway station is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.7787°, -1.5630°.