Norton-on-Tees railway station

The first station to serve the town of Norton-on-Tees (known as ) was opened by the Clarence Railway at the junction between their branches to North Shore and which opened in 1833. However this station was poorly situated for the town it served and so the North Eastern Railway replaced this station with a new one further along the Port Clarence Branch in July 1877. Shortly beyond Billingham-on-Tees station, the next station to the west on the Port Clarence Branch, the former Stockton and Hartlepool Railway branched off the former Clarence Railway route towards West Hartlepool. It was originally called Norton Junction in the Bradshaw timetable but it was renamed to Norton-on-Tees on 1…