Norton-on-Tees
The station site in 2015
General information
LocationNorton, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham,
England
Coordinates54°35′53″N 1°19′18″W / 54.598°N 1.3216°W / 54.598; -1.3216
Grid referenceNZ439227
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyNorth Eastern Railway
Post-groupingLNER
British Railways (North Eastern)
Key dates
July 1877 (1877-07)Opened as Norton Junction
1 October 1901Name changed to Norton-on-Tees
7 March 1960 (1960-03-07)Closed

Norton-on-Tees railway station served the town of Norton, County Durham, England from 1877 to 1960, originally on the Port Clarence Branch of the Clarence Railway.

History

The first station to serve the town of Norton-on-Tees (known as Norton Junction) was opened by the Clarence Railway at the junction between their branches to North Shore and Port Clarence[1] which opened in 1833.[2] However this station was poorly situated for the town it served and so the North Eastern Railway replaced this station with a new one further along the Port Clarence Branch in July 1877. Shortly beyond Billingham-on-Tees station, the next station to the west on the Port Clarence Branch, the former Stockton and Hartlepool Railway branched off the former Clarence Railway route towards West Hartlepool. It was originally called Norton Junction in the Bradshaw timetable but it was renamed to Norton-on-Tees on 1 October 1901.[3] Originally this had been a branch line however, after the North Eastern Railway completed the Durham Coast Line with the opening of the coastal route between Seaham and West Hartlepool in 1905, Norton station became a stop on the new coastal trunk route.[2]

Passenger services on the Clarence route to Port Clarence were cut back to Haverton Hill on 11 September 1939 before being withdrawn completely on 14 June 1954,[4] though trains for workmen continued until November 1961.[5] The station remained a stop on the Durham Coast Line until it closed to both passengers and goods traffic on 7 March 1960. It was subsequently demolished in 1965.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Norton railway station (site), County Durham". Geograph. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  2. 1 2 Hill, Norman (2001). Teesside Railways A View From the Past. Ian Allan Publishing Ltd. pp. 8, 23 & 48. ISBN 0711028036.
  3. ↑ M E Quick, Railway Passenger Stations in England Scotland and Wales—A Chronology, The Railway and Canal Historical Society, 2002, p. 305
  4. ↑ Hoole, K. (1978). North Eastern Branch Lines Since 1925. Ian Allan ltd. p. 114. ISBN 0711008299.
  5. ↑ Hoole, K. (1974). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Volume IV The North East. David & Charles. p. 160. ISBN 0715364391.
  6. ↑ "Norton Railway Station 1959". Picture Stockton Archive. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Stockton-on-Tees
Line and station open		   North Eastern Railway
Durham Coast Line		   Billingham-on-Tees
Line open; station closed
Redmarshall
Line open; station closed		   North Eastern Railway
   Billingham-on-Tees
Line open; station closed
Stockton-on-Tees
Line and station open		    


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