Where is Musgrave railway station?

Musgrave railway station is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.5158°, -2.3649°.

Heritage railway stations · North East England

Musgrave railway station

Musgrave railway station in England North East, United Kingdom.

Stainmore Line heading south to Kirkby Stephen - geograph.org.uk - 5010498 — Christine Johnstone — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Musgrave 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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Musgrave railway station was a railway station situated on the Eden Valley Railway and located between Penrith and Kirkby Stephen East, England.

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History

The railway line and station were built by the Eden Valley Railway (EVR). The line opened for mineral traffic on 8 April 1862 and for passengers on 9 June 1862. The station served the villages of Great Musgrave and Little Musgrave and also nearby Brough. The EVR was worked from the outset by the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) which absorbed the EVR on 1 January 1863. The S&DR was in turn absorbed by the North Eastern Railway (NER) on 13 July 1863. On the Railway grouping of 1923 the working was taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway. Under nationalization on 1 January 1948 British Railways took over, but closed the station to both passengers and goods traffic on 3…

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