Wear Valley Junction railway station
| Wear Valley Junction | |
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| Location | |
| Place | High Grange |
| Area | County Durham |
| Coordinates | 54°40′52″N 1°44′37″W / 54.681°N 1.7435°WCoordinates: 54°40′52″N 1°44′37″W / 54.681°N 1.7435°W |
| Grid reference | NZ166318 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway |
| Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway |
| Post-grouping | LNER |
| Platforms | 2 |
| History | |
| July 1844 | Opening of Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway; first unofficial use of the station |
| 3 April 1847 | Station opened as Junction |
| ? | Station renamed Witton Junction |
| May 1872 | Station renamed Wear Valley Junction |
| 8 July 1935 | Station closed completely |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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Wear Valley Junction railway station was a railway station which primarily served as an interchange between the Wear Valley Line and the Weardale Extension Railway (WXR) between 1847 and 1935. It was the closest railway station to the village of High Grange in County Durham, North East England.
The Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway (BA&WR) passed through the future site of the station upon its opening between Shildon and Crook in November 1843 and was extended to Waskerley by the WXR in 1845. However the rural nature of the station's future location meant that it is unlikely that a station was provided initially and it is unknown exactly when passengers began to board and alight from trains at the site: minutes from the Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway Company suggest that it was considering installing a shelter at 'the Valley Junction' for passengers from Witton-le-Wear and other surrounding settlements on 17 October 1845. It is likely that the station opened when the Wear Valley Company's line from the station to Frosterley on 3 April 1847 and first appeared in the BA&WR timetable in the September of that year as Junction.
The WXR had linked with the Derwent Railway at Waskerley when it first opened but the use of inclines in the area meant that it was not until 1859 (when a deviation was opened to bypass Nanny Mayors Incline) that trains from Wear Valley Junction station were able to run through to Consett.. In 1862, the line to Frosterley was extended to Stanhope by the Frosterley & Stanhope Railway and was once again extended on 21 October 1895 by the North Eastern Railway between Stanhope and Wearhead.
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