Where is Saughtree railway station?

Saughtree railway station is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.2748°, -2.6869°.

Heritage railway stations · North East England

Saughtree railway station

Saughtree railway station in England North East, United Kingdom.

Engine shed (converted from a farmhouse) - geograph.org.uk - 1475686 — Les Hull — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Saughtree 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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Saughtree railway station is a closed railway station situated a mile north of the hamlet of Saughtree and two miles from the border with England.

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History

Saughtree railway station was on the Border Counties Railway which linked the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, near Hexham, with the Border Union Railway at Riccarton Junction. The first section of the route was opened between Hexham and Chollerford in 1858, the remainder opening in 1862. Services to the station were never frequent, due to its remote location (the nearest settlement being a mile distant) – only a single train each way was timetabled to call on Mondays, Thursdays & Saturdays, to allow the handful of regular passengers to travel to to shop. The service was suspended altogether on 1 December 1944 as a wartime economy measure, eventually being reinstated in August 1948. and…

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