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[317663]

My grandmother lives up in Newcastle and was mentioning about a historical Penshaw station, does anyone have information or know about Penshaw?
Any pictures?

Anyone also know about Fence Houses or Houghton-le-spring?

(I S T H I S I N E N G L I S H ?)

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Penshaw (second station) - http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/p/penshaw_second/index.shtml
Fencehouses - http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/f/fencehouses/index.shtml
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Penshaw (first station) - http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/p/penshaw_first/index.shtml

 

[317663]

Penshaw (second station) - http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/p/penshaw_second/index.shtml
Fencehouses - http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/f/fencehouses/index.shtml
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Penshaw (first station) - http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/p/penshaw_first/index.shtml

Awesome!

 

[Jonny]

A map of the area with stations and (sadly mostly former) railways is at https://sites.google.com/site/waggonways/nz/30/nz3050 although the Leamside Line was officially lifted this/last year (but parts were lifted earlier by the criminal fraternity).
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I also understand that the nearest station to Houghton-le-spring was at Hetton about a mile away; the topography doesn't exactly lend itself to having a railway line through Houghton-le-spring as trains and railways don't get on well with severe gradients (and the expense would have been out of all proportion to the possible demand). Even Hetton was on a rope-hauled line (hence the references to "Engine" on the map).

 

[DarloRich]

A map of the area with stations and (sadly mostly former) railways is at https://sites.google.com/site/waggonways/nz/30/nz3050 although the Leamside Line was officially lifted this/last year (but parts were lifted earlier by the criminal fraternity).
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I also understand that the nearest station to Houghton-le-spring was at Hetton about a mile away; the topography doesn't exactly lend itself to having a railway line through Houghton-le-spring as trains and railways don't get on well with severe gradients (and the expense would have been out of all proportion to the possible demand). Even Hetton was on a rope-hauled line (hence the references to "Engine" on the map).

Hetton will have been a colliery railway. Fencehouses would have been the nearest passenger station to Houghton.

Of course there was a large NCB engine shed/works at Philadelphia which isn’t far away.
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I have some details in a book in a box somewhere i will see what i can find. My family are all form that area so i have some interest!

 

[sprinterguy]

Hetton will have been a colliery railway.

Actually, the line that ran East to West through Hetton, from Murton to Sherburn, was a public railway, opened by the Durham and Sunderland Railway in 1836 and absorbed by the North Eastern in 1854. It was rope worked from construction until 1858, and there was a station at Hetton between 1848 and 1953.

The Hetton Colliery Railway of 1822 was the one that ran North to South through the streets of Hetton itself.

 

[DarloRich]

Actually, the line that ran East to West through Hetton, from Murton to Sherburn, was a public railway, opened by the Durham and Sunderland Railway in 1836 and absorbed by the North Eastern in 1854. It was rope worked from construction until 1858, and there was a station at Hetton between 1848 and 1953.

The Hetton Colliery Railway of 1822 was the one that ran North to South through the streets of Hetton itself.

was it a passenger line?

I meant a line serving a colliery rather than a colliery railway. Apologies.

 

[sprinterguy]

was it a passenger line?

I meant a line serving a colliery rather than a colliery railway. Apologies.

To be fair I think that it's initial raison d'etre was shifting coal from collieries in the Sherburn and, slightly later, Houghall, areas. Although the disused stations website disagrees slightly with my written sources, it seems that the passenger stations came slightly later and had comparatively short lives. The passenger service was accessible to the general public for the duration of its’ operation, though.

Here's the disused stations page for Hetton station:
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/h/hetton/