Castles · North East England
Hurworth Burn railway station
Hurworth Burn railway station in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
About
Hurworth Burn 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
Hurworth Burn railway station was a railway station on the Castle Eden branch of the North Eastern Railway (NER) from 1880 to 1931. It was located between the embankment carrying the railway over Hurworth Burn Reservoir (to the north) and the bridge carrying the line over the Hart to Trimdon road (known as Hurworth Burn Road) (to the south). As well as serving the then relatively new reservoir, the station primarily served a few scattered hamlets though it was also the nearest station to the village of Sheraton.
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Background
History
The NER gained parliamentary powers to construct a line from Bowesfield Junction (where it joined the route of Stockton & Darlington Railway) to Wellfield Junction (on the route of the Hartlepool Dock & Railway) in 1872 and opened the line in stages, with the section north of Carlton Junction (where the line crossed the route of the Clarence Railway) opening to freight traffic on 1 August 1878 from which point Hurworth Burn station was used for local goods traffic. However construction of the stations was not complete at this time. Local passenger trains were eventually introduced on 1 March 1880 though these services only ever used the line north of Carlton junction from where they…
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- Coordinates
- 54.6951, -1.3661
Sources
- wikidata: Q48813518 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Hurworth Burn railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Hurworth Burn railway station?
- Hurworth Burn railway station is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.6951°, -1.3661°.