Witton-le-Wear railway station

Witton-le-Wear
Station on heritage railway
The site of the station seen looking across Witton-le-Wear level crossing in November 2009. The second station was on the left side of the track and the future site of the current (third) station is located on the right side of the track
General information
LocationWitton-le-Wear, County Durham
England
Coordinates54°40′34″N 1°46′06″W / 54.6761°N 1.7684°W / 54.6761; -1.7684
Grid referenceNZ150312
Operated byWeardale Railway
Platforms1
History
Original companyFrosterley & Stanhope Railway
Pre-groupingNorth Eastern Railway
Post-groupingLondon & North Eastern Railway
Key dates
3 August 1847 (1847-08-03)First station opened
c.1880First station replaced by second
27 June 1953Second station closed to passengers
1 November 1965 (1965-11-01)Second station closed completely
27 March 2016Third station opened on adjacent site to second

Witton-le-Wear railway station is a railway station on the Weardale heritage railway serves the village of Witton-le-Wear in County Durham, North East England, and is the penultimate stop for most of line's eastbound passenger services (though one return service from Stanhope train per day currently terminates here rather than continuing to the eastern terminus at Bishop Auckland West).[1] The current station platform is located on the opposite side of the track to the original railway station which was operation between 1847 and 1953.

History

The remaining buildings from the first Witton-le-Wear station, now a private house.

The first station opened on 3 April 1847[2] by the Wear Valley Company on their line from the Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway at Witton Junction to Frosterley and was located close to the A68. This line was extended to Stanhope in 1862 by the Frosterley & Stanhope Railway. It was found that this station's location on a curved and steeply graded section of the line made it difficult to start passenger trains from it and thus,[3] in the 1880s, the North Eastern Railway constructed a new station[2] 20 chains to the east, on the east side of Witton-le-Wear level crossing. On 21 October 1895, the Stanhope line was extended once again to reach Wearhead.[3]

Opposite the second station was a single road goods shed and a coal drop while on the west side of the level crossing was another siding serving a horse and cattle dock. The station was closed to passengers on 27 June 1953 and to goods traffic on 1 November 1965.[3]

The station was closed to passengers by British Railways (BR) on 29 June 1953 and goods on 1 November 1965. In 1961 the line was cut back to St John's Chapel and then, in 1968, it was further reduced to the Blue Circle Cement Works (later owned by Lafarge), just to the west of Eastgate. Though stopping goods trains had been withdrawn, the line was retained to serve the cement works ad, in 1988 BR introduced a summer Sunday extension to the regular Darlington to Bishop Auckland 'Heritage Line' service to Stanhope though no stop was provided at Witton-le-Wear (the second station had been demolished in April 1973) and the service was subsequently withdrawn after the summer of 1992.[3] The remaining freight was withdrawn on 17 March 1993.[3]

Weardale Railway

The new station at Witton-le-Wear in April 2014. At this time the station had been disused for 2 years and would not see its first train until 2016

Rather than close the line when freight traffic was withdrawn, the line was mothballed and a campaign began in 1993 to preserve the line as a heritage railway. Weardale Railways Limited purchased the line in 2004 and reopened it between Wolsingham and Stanhope in July 2004.[3] However the organisation struggled financially and the service was suspended a short time later, not recommencing until August 2006.[4]

After major efforts to clear the line of vegetation and repair damaged tracks, passenger services along the section between Stanhope and Bishop Auckland through Witton-le-Wear were reintroduced 23 May 2010.[5] In early August 2012, the Weardale Railway announced that a new £25,000 station was under construction (using elements from the first temporary platform at Bishop Auckland West station) as a result of a joint initiative with Witton-le-Wear Parish Council, the Witton Castle Country Park and Durham County Council.[6] However, by the time the station was ready for use, the 2012 season had ended and, in 2013, it was announced that regular passenger services had been discontinued.[7]

In June 2014 a limited, volunteer-run passenger service was reintroduced between Stanhope and Wolsingham[8] using a class 122 "Bubble Car" and on 27 March 2016 this service was extended to Witton-le-Wear,[9] nearly four years after the station had been constructed. In April 2018, the Weardale Railway CIC announced that works had commenced to lift a short section of track at Broken Banks (approximately 1/2 mile west of Bishop Auckland station) to enable the embankment to be repaired after subsidence had made the line unusable for passenger traffic. Once the works are complete it is intended to reinstate the tracks and extend the Stanhope to Witton-le-Wear passenger service back to Bishop Auckland West station.[10] Since July 2018, two of the three daily return services between Stanhope and Witton-le-Wear have continued to Bishop Auckland West station.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Weardale Railway - Timetables". The Weardale Railway Trust. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Weardale Railway - History Of The Line". Weardale Railway. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Disused Stations: Witton-le-Wear". Disused Stations. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  4. ^ Mackay, Neil (17 August 2006). "Qiet victory as railway reopens - Today's News - News - Journal Live". The Journal. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  5. ^ Williams, Adam (July 2010). "Regular passenger services return to Weardale". Modern Railways. London. p. 9.
  6. ^ "Witton-le-Wear set to be reconnected to rail system - The Journal". The Journal. 8 August 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  7. ^ Statement by Ed Ellis 15 March 2013.
  8. ^ Henderson, Tony (29 September 2015). "Weardale Railway Trust celebrates its 20th anniversary as it keeps heritage services running - Chronicle Live". Chronicle Live. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  9. ^ Russell, Helen (27 March 2016). "Trains stop in County Durham village for first time in 50 years | The Northern Echo". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  10. ^ Conner-Hill, Rachel (9 April 2018). "Weardale Railway to extend service to Bishop Auckland | The Northern Echo". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
Preceding station Heritage Railways  Heritage railways Following station
Bishop Auckland West   Weardale Railway   Wolsingham
  Historical railways  
Wear Valley Junction
Line open; station closed 		  North Eastern Railway
Wear Valley Line 		  Harperley
Line open; station closed

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