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Shincliffe Station (The second Shincliffe Station)
Situated to the south of modern day High Shincliffe, Shincliffe Station opened in 1844 on the Newcastle & Darlington Junction Railway. It closed to passengers in 1941. The line (now known as the Old Main Line or Leamside Line) remained open until the 1990s. The track was lifted in 2013.
Map showing position of Shincliffe Station (opened in 1844) to the south of Shincliffe Colliery. Note the short branch line connecting Shincliffe colliery to the main line.
OS map 1861, surveyed 1857. Durham sheet XXVII. (original scale 6 inches to 1 mile)
Reproduced with permission of the National Library of Scotland. CC-BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial- Share Alike 4.0 International) licence.
Above: Shincliffe Station buildings, looking south from the road bridge, c.1938.
Right: Southbound passenger train passing Signal Box, 1950s.
Left: Shincliffe Station Buildings, 1966. Note the corner of the Signal Box to the far left.
Above: Shincliffe Station buildings, 1968. Note the Signal box has been demolished.
Background image shows Shincliffe Station and Signal box in 1957.
The opening of the Newcastle and Darlington Railway on 14th June 1844. Click anywhere on the text below to read, download or print (2 page PDF):
Newspaper cutting: June 1994
Children of the Railway
Picture caption reads: 'Age of the train… schoolchildren celebrate the birthday of Shincliffe station'
Text of article:
It was a scene right out of the 1830s when pupils from Shincliffe School lined up outside the local station, the girls in frocks and bonnets, the boys waving their flat caps.
But the last train ran 25 years ago, Shincliffe Station is now a restaurant, and the children were in Victorian costume to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first trains calling.
Once the London to Edinburgh steam train ran through. Last week it was Tetley drayhorses and a brass band that proved the big attraction.
The restaurant held a charity Victorian day to mark the occasion, with proceeds going to aged miners and the Lung Foundation.
Journal unknown - written in 1994 at the time of the 150th Anniversary of the opening of the line to passenger traffic and the opening of Shincliffe Station on 19th June 1844.
