Coanwood railway station
Coanwood | |||||
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North Eastern Railway | |||||
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19 July 1851 | Opened as Shaft Hill or Shafthill | ||||
1 March 1885 | Renamed Coanwood | ||||
3 May 1976 | Closed | ||||
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Coanwood was a railway station on the Alston Branch Line, which ran between Haltwhistle and Alston. The station, situated 4 miles (6 km) south-west of Haltwhistle, served the village of Coanwood in Northumberland.
Opened by the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway on 19 July 1851, the station was originally known as Shaft Hill or Shafthill. It was later renamed Coanwood on 1 March 1885 by the North Eastern Railway.[1]
History
The
In March 1851, the 4½-mile section from Haltwhistle to Shaft Hill (which was later renamed Coanwood) was opened to goods traffic, with passenger services commencing in July 1851. The 8¼-mile section of the line between Alston and Lambley opened to goods traffic in January 1852, along with a short branch to Lambley Fell, with passenger services commencing in May 1852.
Construction of the branch line was completed in November 1852, following the opening of the, now
Demise and closure
Coanwood was reduced to unstaffed halt status in 1955. Nearby Featherstone Park, along with Slaggyford, both became an unstaffed halt in the previous year.
The line was originally marked for closure in the 1960s, under the Beeching plan, however the lack of an all-weather road kept it open. Following improvements to the road network, including a temporary level crossing over the branch at Lambley, the line was closed on 3 May 1976 by the British Railways Board, with the last train working two days earlier.[6] The line was replaced in part by a bus service, which was operated by Ribble Motor Services.
Since the line's closure, a 5-mile (8 km) section of the line has since reopened in stages between Slaggyford and Alston, with heritage services operated by the South Tynedale Railway.
References
- ISBN 978-0901461575.
- ISBN 0-7110-1277-6. BE/1183.
- OCLC 7197045.
- ^ Historic England, "Railway Viaduct Across River South Tyne (Grade II*) (1042918)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 7 November 2020
- ^ Fenton, Mike (January 2018). "Byway of the 'Barra'". BackTrack. Vol. 32, no. 321. Easingwold: Pendragon Publishing. pp. 26–30.
- ISBN 978-0901461575.
Sources
- OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. OCLC 228266687.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. OCLC 22311137.
External links
Media related to Coanwood railway station at Wikimedia Commons
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Featherstone Park | North Eastern Railway Alston Branch Line |
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