Where is Leamside railway station?

Leamside railway station is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.8119°, -1.5137°.

Heritage railway stations · North East England

Leamside railway station

Leamside railway station in England North East, United Kingdom.

Station Road, West Rainton - geograph.org.uk - 352165 — Oliver Dixon — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Leamside 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

Leamside railway station served the villages of Leamside and West Rainton, in County Durham, England from 1844 to 1953 on the Leamside line.

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Background

History

The first station was opened on 15 April 1844 by the Newcastle & Darlington Junction Railway as an intermediate station on their route from and to the Durham Junction Railway at Rainton Crossing. The station was situated on the south side of Station Road bridge. On 1 April 1857, the North Eastern Railway opened a line from to a junction with the former N&DJR south of the original Leamside station and, due to it becoming a junction station, decided to open a new, more suitable, Leamside station a short distance to south of the previous one. The freight facilities were on the up side with a goods shed. In 1913 NER statistics show that 11,128 tons of bricks and 21 wagons of livestock were…

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