Stockton and Darlington Railway
Saltburn
On 23 July 1858 the extension of Middlesbrough & Redcar Railway to Saltburn approved by Parliament, and S&DR was permitted to absorb those railways it held on lease. The extension was opened in 1861, Redcar station moving.[1][2]
[1] Henry Pease
Legacy
The Tees Valley Line uses the most of the former Stockton & Darlington Railway between Bishop Auckland and Saltburn.[3] At an end on junction with the heritage Weardale Railway at Bishop Auckland, the 11 miles (18 km) non-electrified line is single track to Shildon, double track to Heighington, and then single track to the junction with the East Coast Main Line north of Darlington. The line is a Community Rail service with the title of the Bishop line, and because of it's links with the S&DR is sometimes known as the Heritage Line. As of December 2013 Northern Rail provide the ten services a day, which take 26 minutes travel to Darlington, and most services continue to Saltburn.[4][5]
South of Darlington, trains take the 1887? route before joining the original 1825 line at the site of Oak Tree junction.[6] The non-electrified line has two tracks, a 8 miles (13 km) long section to Eaglescliffe South Junction,[7] where the 1854? Leeds Northern route is taken through Eaglecliffe station to Stockton Cut Junction.[8][9] The two track non-electrified line then follows the S&DR route for 19 miles (31 km) through to Saltburn, except for later deviations at Thornaby and Redcar (1978).[10][11] There is a two train per hour off-peak service between Darlington and Saltburn, and one train per hour from Middlesbrough south to Manchester Airport via Yarm, and north to Newcastle via Sunderland.[12][5] The former Middlesbrough & Guisborough Railway is open between Guisborough Junction and Nunthorpe as part of the Community Rail Esk Valley Line to Whitby. There are ten services a day each way between Middlesbrough and Nunthrope, with four of these continuing to Whitby.[13][9]
[2] Tees Valley Metro
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Passenger Services June 16th to October 5th 1947. LNER.
Table Tomlinson p. 544
Notes and references
Notes
References
- ^ Allen 1974, p. 115.
- ^ Cobb 2006, p. 450.
- ^ http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/46418.aspx
- ^ Network Rail 2012, pp. 53–54.
- ^ a b Table 44 National Rail timetable, Dec 13
- ^ Cobb 2006, p. ?.
- ^ Network Rail 2012, pp. 68–69.
- ^ Network Rail 2012, p. 60.
- ^ a b Cobb 2006, p. 449.
- ^ Network Rail 2012, pp. 71–73.
- ^ Cobb 2006, pp. 449–450.
- ^ Network Rail 2012, p. 73.
- ^ Network Rail 2012, pp. 57–58.
Sources
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(help) - Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Patrick Stephens. ISBN 1-85260-049-7.
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(help) - Beeching, Richard (1963). "The Reshaping of British Railways" (PDF). HMSO. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
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(help) See also Beeching, Richard (1963). "The Reshaping of British Railways (maps)" (PDF). HMSO. map 9. Retrieved 22 June 2013. - Cobb, Colonel M.H. (2006). The Railways of Great Britain: A Historical Atlas. Ian Allan. ISBN 978-07110-3236-1.
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(help) - Hedges, Martin, ed. (1981). 150 years of British Railways. Hamyln. ISBN 0-600-37655-9.
- Hoole, K. (1974). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Volume IV The North East. David & Charles. ISBN 0715364391.
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(help) - Smiles, Samuel (1879). Lives of the Engineers. The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson. John Murray.
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(help) - Tomlinson, William Weaver (1915). The North Eastern Railway: Its rise and development. Andrew Reid and Company.
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(help) - Whishaw, Francis (1842). The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland Practically Described and Illustrated. J. Weale.
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(help) - Route Specifications – London North Eastern. Network Rail. 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- Kirby, Maurice W. (4 July 2002). The Origins of Railway Enterprise: The Stockton and Darlington Railway 1821-1863. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-89280-3.
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External links
- Loft, Charles (15 October 2004). Government, the Railways and the Modernization of Britain: Beeching's Last Trains. Psychology Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-203-64305-1.
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