Closed Stations Journey quiz

[DerekC]

Lodge Hill

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wookey

 

[Whistler40145]

Wells (Tucker Street)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wells (Priory Road)

From here, we access the final line of this journey.

 

[Calthrop]

Polsham Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glastonbury and Street

 

[Calthrop]

Ashcott

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shapwick

 

[Calthrop]

Edington Junction (more commonly known as Edington Burtle; but I always think of it as E.J., owing to its being thus named in a book by O.S. Nock on British branch lines, in which I first learned of these particular routes).

 

[Whistler40145]

Cossington

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bawdrip Halt

Just the final closed station now to be named.

 

[Calthrop]

Bridgwater North

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Apologies, but I have had an afternoon hospital appointment that has required a number of tests, so it will be some time yet before I can launch the next new journey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next move to England for the next journey.....

This is number 993 in the series so far.....

The journey starts at the closed station of Shincliffe....note 1st and 2nd stations
It follows the line of the NER Leamside Line
It then follows the line of the Stanhope & Tyne Railway
It then follows the line of the Weardale Extension Railway
It then follows the line of the Deerness Valley Railway
It then follows the line of the North Eastern Railway Main Line
It then follows the line of the NER Durham Coast Line
It then follows the line of the Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway
It then follows the line of the Cleveland Railway
It then follows the line of the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway
It then follows the line of the Scarborough and Whitby Railway
It then follows the line of the Y&NMR Scarborough to York Line
It then follows the line of the Malton and Driffield Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the NER Driffield to Selby Line
It then follows the line of the Great Northern Railway Main Line
The journey ends at the closed station of Tallington

The first closed station on this journey is Shincliffe

 

[Whistler40145]

Sherburn Colliery

 

[Calthrop]

Belmont

 

[Ash Bridge]

Leamside

 

[Whistler40145]

Rainton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fencehouses

 

[DerekC]

Penshaw (2nd station - 1881 to 1964)

 

[Ash Bridge]

Washington

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

OBSERVATION

Whilst it is noted that Penshaw (2nd station) was correctly posted, noting the direction we are taking, that then should have been followed by Penshaw (1st station), which was situated 10 chains to the north of the 2nd station.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Washington

Durham Turnpike

 

[Calthrop]

Pelton (2nd station) ?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pelton (2nd station) ?

I have a feeling that Fatfield preceded that one.

 

[Calthrop]

To be frank, I'm pretty thoroughly lost hereabouts ! (Dewick seems not to have heard of Fatfield; though as we're aware, he isn't omniscient .)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

To be frank, I'm pretty thoroughly lost hereabouts ! (Dewick seems not to have heard of Fatfield; though as we're aware, he isn't omniscient .)

Fatfield was known for its medieval connection to the tale of the "Lambton Worm". The story makes for good reading. Later, the colliery there had a mine disaster with fatalities and I was informed many years ago that the station served the miners at that colliery.

Pelton (2nd station) ?

Beamish

 

[Calthrop]

Fatfield was known for its medieval connection to the tale of the "Lambton Worm". The story makes for good reading. Later, the colliery there had a mine disaster with fatalities and I was informed many years ago that the station served the miners at that colliery.

My bolding - ah, yes; there's a song about it, isn't there? -- Sir John Lambton's unfortunate catch...

Beamish

West Stanley

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Annfield Plain

 

[Calthrop]

Leadgate