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The Weardale Railway is an independently owned British single-track branch line heritage railway between Bishop Auckland, Witton-le-Wear, Wolsingham, Frosterley and Stanhope. Weardale Railway began services on 23 May 2010, but decided to run special trains rather than a scheduled service for the 2013 season.
A map of the railway network of the Tees Valley, and neighbouring areas of County Durham and North Yorkshire, at its greatest extent during the early 20th century. The section of line between Bishop Auckland and Albert Hill Junction, Darlington (prior to joining the East Coast Main Line), as well as the section between Oak Tree Junction, Dinsdale (near Middleton St. George) and Eaglescliffe ...
The railway first reached Stanhope in 1834 as part of the Stanhope and Tyne Railway, but this line did not carry passengers and was cable hauled by stationary engines up the valley sides. The station first opened in 1862, as the Frosterley and Stanhope railway extended to reach the Newlandsides estate, an area where vast amounts of limestone ...
Bishop Auckland West railway station is the eastern terminus of the Weardale Railway, a heritage railway which runs between there and Stanhope. The station was built by the Weardale Railway and initially opened on 23 May 2010, [ 14 ] with a regular passenger service which lasted until the end of the 2012 running season.
After major efforts to clear the line of vegetation and repair damaged tracks, passenger services along the section between Stanhope and Bishop Auckland through Wear Valley Junction were reintroduced 23 May 2010 [4] and continued until the end of the 2012 season. [5]
The grade II listed [5] manual signal box here controls the immediate station area (including the siding connections into the museum), along with the single track section through Shildon tunnel to the west and terminus at Bishop Auckland. Bishop Auckland is the junction with the now privately owned and operated Weardale Railway to Stanhope.
Rogerley railway bridge Weardale Railway: Shittlehope: 1862: 54°43′46″N 1°58′57″W: Gas Works Bridge Shittlehope: 1958: 54°44′23″N 1°59′56″W: Stanhope East Railway Bridge Weardale Railway: Stanhope: 54°44′29″N 2°0′7″W: Stanhope Central Railway Bridge Weardale Railway: Stanhope: 1895: 54°44′42″N 2°0′28″W ...
Though the tracks were lifted on the Crook line by early 1968, the curtailed Wear Valley Line remained open to provide rail access to the Blue Circle cement works (later owned by Lafarge) and in 1988 BR introduced a summer Sunday extension to the regular Darlington to Bishop Auckland 'Heritage Line' service to Stanhope. As this passed through ...