Where is Richmond railway station?

Richmond railway station is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.4030°, -1.7296°.

Heritage railway stations · North East England

Richmond railway station

Richmond railway station in England North East, United Kingdom.

Interior of "the Station" - geograph.org.uk - 7914719 — Oliver Dixon — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Richmond 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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Richmond railway station was a railway station that served the town of Richmond in North Yorkshire, England. The station was the terminus of a branch line that connected with what would become the East Coast Main Line.

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History

Richmond station was the terminus of the now closed Eryholme-Richmond branch line. In 1845, the Great North of England Railway (GNER) was granted powers by the Great North of England and Richmond Railway Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. cii) to construct a branch line from Coopers House near Dalton, six miles south of Darlington, to Richmond. While construction of the line was underway the GNER was reconstituted as the York and Newcastle Railway, and it was this company which opened the line on 1846. Although the line opened on 10 September 1846, the present station at Richmond was not opened until 9 April 1847, a temporary wooden platform being provided in the interim. The line from Dalton…

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