Deadwater railway station

Deadwater
Station building in September 2009
Location
Place	Kielder
Area	Northumberland
Grid reference	NY603969
Operations
Original company	Border Counties Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway North Eastern Region of British Railways
Platforms	1
History
1880	Station opened as Deadwater Foot Crossing
15 October 1956	Station closed to passengers
1 September 1958	Station closed to freight
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[v · d · e]  Border Counties Railway
Locale Roxburghshire, Scotland; Northumberland, England Dates of operation 31 July 1854 – 13 August 1860 Successor line North British Railway Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Legend
Border Union Railway Riccarton Junction    Border Union Railway Saughtree English/Scottish Border Deadwater Kielder Lewiefield Halt Plashetts    Plashetts Colliery Waggonway Falstone Thorneyburn Tarset Charlton Bellingham, later Bellingham (North Tyne)    Wansbeck Railway Reedsmouth Wark Barrasford Chollerton Chollerford (renamed Humshaugh in 1919)[1] Wall    Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Border Counties Bridge Border Counties Junction Hexham    Newcastle and Carlisle Railway

Deadwater railway station is a closed railway station situated on the border between England and Scotland at the head of the North Tyne River. The station served the settlement of Deadwater which consisted of just six houses, and no local industry.^[2]

History

Deadwater railway station was on the Border Counties Railway which linked the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, near Hexham, with the Border Union Railway at Riccarton Junction. The first section of the route was opened between Hexham and Chollerford in 1858, the remainder opening in 1862. The line was closed to passengers by British Railways in 1956.

The station had a single platform, a stone built station building, and a siding that crossed the border which was just north of the station proper.^[3]

The station building and platform still stand.

Former Services

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Saughtree		LNER Border Counties Railway		Kielder

References

1. ^ Sewell, G.W.M. (1993 reprint). The North British Railway in Northumberland. Baunton, Devon, England: Merlin Books Limited. pp. 26. ISBN 0-86303-613-9. 
2. ^ Robson, E. (2007). The Border Line, Frances Lincoln Publishers, page 102.
3. ^ Deadwater Station, Northumbrian Railways, UK.

External links

• Deadwater Station on Disused Stations
• Deadwater Station on Northumbrian Railways
• Deadwater Station on a navigable 1955 O.S. map

Coordinates: 55°15′50″N 2°37′34″W / 55.264°N 2.626°W / 55.264; -2.626