Norton-on-Tees railway station

Disused railway station in Norton, County Durham

Norton-on-Tees

The station site in 2015

General information
Location| Norton, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham,
England
Coordinates| 54°35′53″N 1°19′18″W﻿ / ﻿54.598°N 1.3216°W﻿ / 54.598; -1.3216
Grid reference| NZ439227
Platforms| 2
Other information
Status| Disused
History
Original company| North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping| LNER
British Railways (North Eastern)
Key dates
July 1877 (1877-07)| Opened as Norton Junction
1 October 1901| Name changed to Norton-on-Tees
7 March 1960 (1960-03-07)| Closed

Norton-on-Tees railway station served the town of Norton, County Durham, England from 1877 to 1960, originally on the Port Clarence Branch of the Clarence Railway.

## History[edit]

The first station to serve the town of Norton-on-Tees (known as Norton Junction) was opened by the Clarence Railway at the junction between their branches to North Shore and Port Clarence[1] which opened in 1833.[2] However this station was poorly situated for the town it served and so the North Eastern Railway replaced this station with a new one further along the Port Clarence Branch in July 1877. Shortly beyond Billingham-on-Tees station, the next station to the west on the Port Clarence Branch, the former Stockton and Hartlepool Railway branched off the former Clarence Railway route towards West Hartlepool. It was originally called Norton Junction in the Bradshaw timetable but it was renamed to Norton-on-Tees on 1 October 1901.[3] Originally this had been a branch line however, after the North Eastern Railway completed the Durham Coast Line with the opening of the coastal route between Seaham and West Hartlepool in 1905, Norton station became a stop on the new coastal trunk route.[2]

Passenger services on the Clarence route to Port Clarence were cut back to Haverton Hill on 11 September 1939 before being withdrawn completely on 14 June 1954,[4] though trains for workmen continued until November 1961.[5] The station remained a stop on the Durham Coast Line until it closed to both passengers and goods traffic on 7 March 1960. It was subsequently demolished in 1965.[6]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Norton railway station (site), County Durham". Geograph. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
2. ^ a b Hill, Norman (2001). Teesside Railways A View From the Past. Ian Allan Publishing Ltd. pp. 8, 23 & 48\. ISBN 0711028036.
3. ^ M E Quick, Railway Passenger Stations in England Scotland and Wales—A Chronology, The Railway and Canal Historical Society, 2002, p. 305
4. ^ Hoole, K. (1978). North Eastern Branch Lines Since 1925. Ian Allan ltd. p. 114\. ISBN 0711008299.
5. ^ Hoole, K. (1974). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Volume IV The North East. David & Charles. p. 160\. ISBN 0715364391.
6. ^ "Norton Railway Station 1959". Picture Stockton Archive. Retrieved 2 July 2017.

## External links[edit]

Preceding station  | Historical railways | Following station

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Stockton-on-Tees
Line and station open |  | North Eastern Railway
Durham Coast Line |  | Billingham-on-Tees
Line open; station closed
Redmarshall
Line open; station closed |  | North Eastern Railway

* Clarence Railway
* (Port Clarence Branch)

|  | Billingham-on-Tees
Line open; station closed
Stockton-on-Tees
Line and station open |  |

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Stanhope and Tyne Railway
NER Annfield and Beamish Deviations

* Burnhill
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* Hownes Gill
* Consett
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Annfield Plain
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Durham and Sunderland Railway
NER Elvet Branch|

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Leamside line|

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Weardale Extension Railway|

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Great North of England, Clarence
and Hartlepool Junction Railway|

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Deerness Valley Railway|

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Durham to Bishop Auckland Line|

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Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway|

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East Coast Main Line|

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Durham Coast Line|

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Hartlepool Dock and Railway
Stockton and Hartlepool Railway|

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Greatham

Clarence Railway
Simpasture Branch
Port Clarence Branch
Byers Green Branch and NER Extension|

* Coxhoe (WHHR)
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Simpasture
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Norton-on-Tees
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* Belasis Lane
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Coundon
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Castle Eden Railway|

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Stockton and Darlington Railway|

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Tees Valley Railway|

* Middleton-in-Teesdale
* Mickleton
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* Cotherstone

Tanfield Waggonway|

* Tanfield Lea
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