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Station Yard, CONSETT, DH8 5YB

View NE, towards Annfield Plain, Birtley and Newcastle, also Pelaw and Tyne Dock: ex-NER line - passenger from Newcastle, goods from Tyne Dock. The latter included the celebrated heavy iron-ore workings to Consett Steelworks, which were on the Blackhill line, behind and to the west of this view. Consett station was closed to passengers from 23/5/55, but until 1980 this view would be full of railway sidings and the station buildings survived until then at least.

Seen from a footbridge over the Consett By-pass (the A692 from Castleside to Chester-le-Street). To the left, Station Road runs into Consett town centre; to the right is Delves Lane.

Delves Lane originally bridged the Birtley, Annfield Plain and Consett railway here. The A692 Consett By-pass follows the course of the railway and Consett Station lay between the roundabout and the green footbridge in the background

The Consett and Sunderland path (part of the famous C2C cycle route, National Cycle Network route 7) for the most part follows the line of the old railway. But here it diverges from the trackbed for about 1 km and runs along this line of trees at the edge of the Crook Hall playing fields. This was the first length of the path to be laid (in 1987).

This is the new site of the football club, opened in 2013, after the old ground at Belle View Park was vacated to make way for the new Consett Academy.

There has been a clock here most of the time since the first bus station was built in 1936. This clock was installed in 2018. The bus station entrance is on the left.

Main street in Consett town centre.

Virtually all the services from here are operated by Go North East. There was a major modernisation of the local fleet in 2019, with new double deck buses, one of which is shown in the centre here.

Shown on the right here, this is the third bus station to be built on this site. The buses here are all Go North East vehicles, they operate nearly all the services in the area.