Witton-le-Wear railway station

The first station opened on 3 April 1847 by the Wear Valley Company on their line from the Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway at Witton Junction to and was located close to the A68. This line was extended to in 1862 by the Frosterley & Stanhope Railway. It was found that this station's location on a curved and steeply graded section of the line made it difficult to start passenger trains from it and thus, The station was closed to passengers by British Railways (BR) on 29 June 1953 and goods on 1 November 1965. In 1961 the line was cut back to and then, in 1968, it was further reduced to the Blue Circle Cement Works (later owned by Lafarge), just to the west of . Though stopping goods…