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    North Wylam railway station served the village of Wylam, Northumberland, England from 1876 to 1968 on the Tyne Valley Line. The station opened on 13 May...
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    and the view of Wylam Bridge from Wylam Wood Road towards the southwest is especially dramatic. To the east of Wylam railway station is the mouth of the...
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    Wylam is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between Newcastle and Carlisle via Hexham. The station, situated 9 miles 71 chains (9.89 mi;...
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    Wetheral stations, before joining with the Settle and Carlisle Line just before Carlisle. The Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway (or North Wylam Loop)...
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    North platforms (North Wylam loop) opened 12 July 1875. The South platform (Blaydon line) service was suspended on 3 September 1966 and the station closed...
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    Newcastle station (also known as Newcastle Central and locally as Central Station) is a railway station in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom...
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    Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway was a railway company that built the 6+1⁄2 miles (10.5 km) North Wylam branch or North Wylam loop on the former Newcastle...
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    Horsley with the railway station in South Wylam as well as west Gateshead, including the villages of Ryton and Crawcrook. The River Tyne at Wylam has been forded...
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    Newburn and Wylam Railway. It was situated where Station Road (southeast of Heddon village) meets the National Cycle Route, which follows the railway trackbed...
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    Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway, a branch line of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. The station was opened on 12 July 1875. The station ceased to receive...
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    (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge. In 1748, the Wylam waggonway was built to a 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge for the shipment of coal from Wylam to Lemington down the River Tyne...
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    was a railway station on the Ponteland Railway, which ran between South Gosforth and Ponteland, with a sub-branch line to Darras Hall. The station served...
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  • was a railway station on the Ponteland Railway, which ran between South Gosforth and Ponteland, with a sub-branch line to Darras Hall. The station served...
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    Newcastle to Hexham and Haltwhistle. In 1966 British Railways proposed that North Wylam station remain open and that September suspended services over...
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    only other surviving signal box of this design located at Wylam. Since the mid-2000s, the station has accommodated office space for the Tyne Valley Community...
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    and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863. The world's first public railway to use steam...
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    rack railway. This was followed in 1813 by the locomotive Puffing Billy built by Christopher Blackett and William Hedley for the Wylam Colliery Railway, the...
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    The station then passed on to the North Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was closed by the British Railways Board...
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    Prudhoe (section West Wylam)
    change. The line is also heavily used for freight. The next railway stations are those at Wylam and Stocksfield. The town has direct bus links to Newcastle...
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  • Southwick and Monkwearmouth Railway incorporated 1871, amalgamated with NER in 1883 Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway incorporated 1871, amalgamated...
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  • station opened on 12 July 1875 by the Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway. The station was adjacent to the junction of Tyne View and Sugley Villas. The...
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    Monkwearmouth is a former railway station that served Monkwearmouth in the English city of Sunderland, from 1848 to 1967. It was built in 1848 to a design...
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    Holywell was a railway station that served the village of Backworth and nearby hamlet of Holywell in what is now the Borough of North Tyneside, North East England...
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    Fawcett Street railway station served the city of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England from 1853 to 1879 on the Penshaw branch line. The station opened on 1...
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    Middleton North was a stone-built railway station on the Wansbeck Railway in Northumberland, England. Between Morpeth and Reedsmouth, it served the villages...
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    Backworth was a railway station on the Blyth and Tyne Railway, serving the village of Backworth, in the borough of North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England...
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    and Wylam, however there is step-free access to both platforms via the nearby road bridge. There is a small car park and cycle storage at the station. Stocksfield...
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    Model and Experimental Engineers (TSMEE) operates a miniature railway in the park. Wylam Brewery started brewing at South Houghton Farm, Heddon-on-the-Wall...
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    Pontefract Junction Railway 1882 Tees Valley Railway 1883 Hylton, Southwick and Monkwearmouth Railway Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway 1889 Whitby, Redcar...
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    locomotive. 1813 – Wylam Waggonway started commercial operation. The wagonway was used to haul coal chaldron wagons from the mine at Wylam to the docks at...
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