Stockton (S&DR) Bridge Road railway station (site), County Durham
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Stockton (S&DR) Bridge Road railway station (site), County Durham
Image: © Nigel Thompson Taken: 1 Jan 2015
Converted in 1826 into a weigh house for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, this building may have also sold passenger tickets. Steam-hauled passenger trains ran between here and Darlington from 1833 to 1848. It continued as a goods station long after S&DR passengers had transferred to South Stockton railway station (see Image), which was only a few minutes walk away across the river Tees, and therefore located in Yorkshire. This site is also historic in that the first tracks of the Stockton and Darlington Railway were laid here in 1822. View north east over a former level crossing. As built we would be looking towards the coal staithes on the River Tees
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Image Location
Latitude
54.558692
Longitude
-1.310468
