![]() ![]() Most of the route reused as the Castle Eden Walkway. ![]() The southern section of the line was electrified as part of the NER's 1914 Shildon to Newport electrification project but was subsequently de-electrified by the LNER in 1935. Stopping passenger services only ever ran over the line north of Redmarshall Junction, south of which they used the Stillington line to reach Stockton. Thornaby to Wellfield, via Thorpe Thewles The line paralleled an earlier branch which ran to the east of the settlement of Eston (known as the Eston Mines branch) and which carried an intermittent passenger service during the 19th Century. The line followed the northern section of the earlier Cleveland Railway mineral line which had originally continued south to Guisborough and Brotton via a number of inclines but this section was dismantled in 1873. Known as the "Crab and Winkle Line" – 1830–1952 Whitstable Harbour to Canterbury North Lane SER branch from North Kent Line to rival LCDR's Chatham Main Line – closed with advent of SECR circa 1890s Rochester Bridge Junction to Chatham Central Much of the northern section of the network remains open for freight traffic serving the Port of Blyth and Lynemouth Power Station as of July 2020, there is an active project seeking to reintroduce a Newcastle to Ashington passenger service using much of this surviving freight network.Ī section of B&TR's original main line was reopened during the 1970s as a test track for the Tyne and Wear Metro rolling stock and is now largely preserved (between Percy Main and Middle Engine Lane) as the North Tyneside Steam Railway.īodmin Road to Wadebridge (via Bodmin General, Boscarne Junction and Grogley)Ħ 1⁄ 2-mile stretch of the line now preserved, as the Some of the former B&TR constituted part of the North Tyneside Loop which was officially incorporated into the Tyne and Wear Metro on 11 August 1980. Rock Ferry to Bidston Dock, via Mollington Street and Canning StreetĮntire branch line still extant, but disusedĪ former network of primarily colliery lines in south east Northumberland and North TynesideĢ November 1964 (to passengers, north of Backworth and Monkseaton)ġ971-1983 (in stages, to all traffic on North Tyneside Loop) The line remains open to freight traffic from the chemical and biochemical processing plant cluster around Haverton Hill and Seal Sands Tingley railway station, was also A Junction station on both the Loop Line, and the Ardsley to Laisterdyke line.īillingham-on-Tees to Port Clarence branch lineīillingham-on-Tees to Port Clarence/ Seal Sands Power Station, via Belasis Lane and Haverton Hillġ1 September 1939 (to passengers, east of Haverton Hill)ġ4 June 1954 (to regular passengers, west of Haverton Hill) Tingley Viaduct (still stands), as do both Tingley and Woodkirk train station sites (both of whom long overgrown), and Soothill Tunnel. Mostly a Colliery Line, throughout its heyday.īarnard Castle to Middleton-in-Teesdale branch line Portion of the Line, now preserved as the Part of the former branch (through Stubbins Junction to Rawtenstall, via Irwell Vale), now preserved as part of the East Lancashire Railway.īanbury to Verney Junction (Where it joined the Varsity Line) Stubbins Junction to Bacup, via Rawtenstall, Clough Fold and Stacksteads London and South Western Railway (Southern Railway) Mostly a freight only line, but now also a diversionary passenger route Shaftholme Junction (near Doncaster) to Knottingley, via Askern (itself), Norton and Womersley Most of the line now survives as a walk/cycle path called the Tissington Trail Opened by the Leeds, Bradford & Halifax Joint Rlyģ0 October 1954 (to regular passenger traffic) ![]() Most of the former branch now being restored from a resited Alnwick terminus, as theĪ 3 1⁄ 2 Mile section of the line, now preserved forming the Midland Railway – Butterley. York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway YN&BR Southern branch off the Hoo branch line (off the Part of the Line, (north of Brownhills) now preserved as the Chasewater Railway. Part of the branch still open (freight only) ![]()
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