Thornaby railway station, Yorkshire
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Thornaby railway station, Yorkshire
Image: © Nigel Thompson Taken: 14 Jan 2011
Opened in 1858 as "South Stockton" by the Stockton & Darlington Railway on the lines from Darlington and Northallerton to Middlesbrough, this station had a major rebuild in 1882 by the North Eastern Railway which included the large island platform seen here. It was renamed "Thornaby" in 1892. View east towards Middlesbrough. Some of the brickwork from the 1882 station can be seen, but all the platform buildings were demolished in the early 1980s. The site was big enough to put a car park in between the platforms.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.559092
Longitude
-1.301956