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    Boldon railway station served the village of East Boldon, Tyne and Wear, England, from 1844 to 1967 on the Pontop and South Shields Railway. The station...
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    East Boldon is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the villages of Cleadon and East Boldon, South Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the...
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    The Boldons is an area made up of the three villages of East Boldon, West Boldon and Boldon Colliery in South Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear...
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    Brockley Whins is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the suburbs of Boldon Colliery and Brockley Whins, South Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It...
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    Sunderland is a railway and metro station in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the Durham Coast Line, which runs between Middlesbrough and...
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    Pelaw to South Hylton. The station was opened by the London and North Eastern Railway on 3 May 1937. As well as East Boldon, Brockley Whins and Heworth...
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  • Stockton and Darlington Railway. When the Brandling Junction Railway main line was constructed in 1839 it crossed the S&TR near Boldon by a flat crossing,...
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  • Gateshead railway station served the town of Gateshead, England between 1844 and 1981. It was situated on the northern and western sides of the triangular...
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    Tyne Dock and East Boldon. The 1923 Grouping saw the station pass from the NER into the control of the London and North Eastern Railway. Services on both...
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    parallel to, the Stanhope and Tyne Railway, till it joins the branch from Sunderland at a well-known place on the Boldon-lane, called "Old Jonathans". It...
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    Backworth railway station served part of Newcastle in the English county of Northumberland, later part of Tyne and Wear. The station opened as Hotspur...
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    November 1896, but was located north of the Metro station site. Named Boldon Colliery, 1925–1991. The old station buildings were demolished in the late 1970s...
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    Karlsruhe model. Between Pelaw and Sunderland, intermediate stations at Brockley Whins, East Boldon and Seaburn were re-built, with a further three being purpose-built...
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    Birtley railway station served the town of Birtley, Tyne and Wear, England, from 1868 to 1955 on the East Coast Main Line. The station opened on 1 December...
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    Bensham Railway Station was a railway station serving the Bensham area of Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England. It opened in 1868 and closed in 1954. Butt...
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  • On 8 July 1878 the station was closed and replaced with a second station 352 yards south of the first station. The railway station was located in Dudley...
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    Newcastle New Bridge Street was a railway station on the edge of the city-centre of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. The station was the original Newcastle terminus...
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    Low Fell railway station served the Low Fell area of Gateshead between 1868 and 1952. The station was opened by the North Eastern Railway (NER) on 1 December...
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    Leamside. Stations also opened on the Durham Junction Railway at Fencehouses and Penshaw, and at Boldon on the Pontop and South Shields. For three months...
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    Beamish Museum (category Railway museums in England)
    Boldon, and would have been a common sight on smaller stations. The weighbridge came from Glanton, while the coal office is from Hexham. The station is...
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    needed to power the railway's electric locomotive E4. It has been given a fictitious brown livery and markings of "No.103 Boldon Colliery" on one side...
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    Lamesley railway station served the village of Lamesley, Tyne and Wear, England from 1868 to 1959 on the East Coast Main Line. The station opened on 1...
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    Washington railway station served the town of Washington, Tyne and Wear, England from 1835 to 1963, initially on the Stanhope & Tyne Railway and later...
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  • the town, leading the royalists to flee south, leading to the Battle of Boldon Hill. In the Victorian era, coal mining led to a boom in the town, increasing...
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    a railway station on the Riverside Branch, which ran between Byker and Willington Quay. The station served Wallsend in North Tyneside. The station was...
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  • Killingworth railway station served the town of Killingworth, Tyne and Wear, England from 1847 to 1965 on the East Coast Main Line. The station opened on...
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    Monkwearmouth Railway Station is a former station that served Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, England, from 1848 to 1967. It was built in 1848 to a design...
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    Heaton railway station was a railway station in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, near the southern boundary of Heaton with Byker. The station was built in...
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  • railway stations in Britain History of rail transport in Great Britain Beeching cuts Morrison, Brian (ed.). "The Meldon Quarry Branch". Modern Railways Pictorial...
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  • a railway station on the Riverside Branch which ran between Byker and Willington Quay. The station served Walker in Newcastle upon Tyne. The station was...
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