Template:Border Counties Railway

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Border Counties Railway
Locale Roxburghshire, Scotland; Northumberland, England
Dates of operation 31 July 1854 – 13 August 1860
Successor North British Railway
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in)
   Waverley Route
Riccarton Junction
   Waverley Route
Saughtree
Scotland
England
Deadwater
Kielder
Lewiefield Halt
Plashetts
   Plashetts Colliery Waggonway
Falstone
Thorneyburn
Tarset
Charlton
Bellingham, later Bellingham (North Tyne)
   Wansbeck Railway
Reedsmouth
Countess Park (1859-1861)
Wark
Barrasford
Chollerton
Chollerford (renamed Humshaugh in 1919)
Wall
   Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
Border Counties Bridge
Border Counties Junction
Hexham
   Newcastle and Carlisle Railway


References

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Sources[edit]

  • Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • RAILSCOT on Border Counties Railway
  • RAILSCOT on Plashetts Colliery Waggonway