Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Alston branch railway | |
| other name:- | Newcastle and Carlisle Railway | |
| other name:- | NandCR | |
| county:- | Northumberland | |
| railway | ||
| parish |
Alston Moor parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| railway | ||
| from Haltwhistle on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, through Featherstone Park, Lambley, Slaggyford, Northumberland; to Alston, Cumberland. | ||
| References | ||
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| old map:- |
North Eastern Railway c1900
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| placename:- | North Eastern Railway | |
| date:- | 1900 | |
| period:- | 1900s | |
| hearsay |
A narrow gauge railway, the South Tynedale Railway, now uses
some of the trackbed of the Alston branch railway.
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goes through
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| mapping:- |
Haltwhistle Station,
Haltwhistle
Haltwhistle Junction, Haltwhistle Haltwhistle Viaduct, Haltwhistle Featherstone Park Station, Featherstone railway bridge, Featherstone Coanwood Halt, Coanwood Lambley Viaduct, Lambley Lambley Junction, Lambley Lambley Station, Lambley Burnstones Viaduct, Burnstones railway bridge, Knaresdale with Kirkhaugh Slaggyford Station, Slaggyford railway bridge, Knaresdale with Kirkhaugh (2) Kirkhaugh Station, Kirkhaugh Gilderstone Viaduct, Alston Moor Alston Station, Alston 26.8.1846: authorized 1852: opened 1.5.1976: closed | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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