Where is Rowley railway station?

Rowley railway station is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.8259°, -1.8660°.

Heritage railway stations · North East England

Rowley railway station

Rowley railway station in England North East, United Kingdom.

Flush bracket benchmark, Rowley, Dean Bridge House - geograph.org.uk - 7084734 — Adrian Taylor — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Rowley 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

Rowley railway station served the hamlet of Rowley and the village of Castleside in County Durham, England from 1845 to 1966 on the Stanhope & Tyne Railway.

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History

.]] The station was opened on 1 September 1845 as Cold Rowley as a stop on the Derwent Railway route from to but was renamed Rowley on 1 July 1868. It was situated on the west side of the A68 on what is now the Waskerley Way cycle track which passes through the station site. The goods traffic that was handled at the station was ganister (stone) and livestock. By 1931, passenger numbers had declined to 2,548 and to 753 in 1938, which led to its inevitable passenger closure on 1 May 1939. The station was still open to goods traffic with a single track in the 1950s until it closed completely on 6 June 1966. The line through the station continued to carry mineral traffic until 1 May 1969 and…

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