Washington railway station (England)

Washington railway station served the town of

The second station was situated on Station Road, south of the railway bridge and level crossing on Usworth Station Road and Washington Road respectively and was closer to Washington Village than the first station had been. Adjacent to the station were brickworks a wire rope works and a large chemicals plant. North of the footbridge were two buildings: one was the rear of a goods shed and the other was lower with a hipped roof. The goods shed was reached by the sidings on the up platform. The goods handled at the station were bricks, iron, steel, composition and livestock.[1] In March 1862, a passenger service along the former S&TR route was reintroduced (this time from the second station) providing a service to Chester-le-Street and Pelton. However the opening of Chester-le-Street station on the Team Valley Line led to it being permanently withdrawn in January 1869.^[2] Inter-city services between London and Newcastle continued to use the line through Washington until 15 January 1872 when services were diverted via Durham and the Team Valley line after which point only local services used the Leamside line.

The passenger bookings had declined to a mere 2,318 in 1951. Passenger services started to decline after summer 1957, and by 1963 Monday-Friday departures consisted of a single morning arrival at 8:56 and a single afternoon departure at 17:33 from and to