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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.
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.
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 ...
Teesside Airport railway station is on the Tees Valley line which runs between Bishop Auckland and Saltburn via Darlington in County Durham, England.The station is 5.5 miles (9 km) east of Darlington and about 1 mile (1.6 km) from Teesside International Airport, which owns the station.
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 ...
Witton-le-Wear railway station is a railway station on the Weardale heritage railway serves the village of Witton-le-Wear in County Durham, North East England, and is the penultimate stop for most of line's eastbound passenger services (though one return service from Stanhope train per day currently terminates here rather than continuing to the eastern terminus at Bishop Auckland West). [1]
The preserved railway station and tearoom. Stanhope is the current terminus of the Weardale Railway, a heritage line operating mainly at weekends from Bishop Auckland, with stations at Frosterley, Wolsingham and Witton-le-Wear. [21] Stanhope station stood in for the fictional Partlington Station in an episode of the criminal drama series Vera.
The later phase would have introduced tram-trains to allow street running and further heavy rail extensions, [9] [10] [11] and there was suggestions to have the metro extend west to Bishop Auckland from Darlington. [12] Darlington was a major part of the scheme and so had some of the largest proposed improvements.