Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway

Introduction

The railway built by this former railway company is open. This line extended the Middlesbrough Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway) east to Redcar. Initially it ran close to the shoreline, but this was to change. Its route took it through an area which would become heavily industrialised with many iron and steel works and with branches running south to the Cleveland hills to reach iron ore mines. As a result the railway would be quadrupled and serve a considerable number of sidings.The last of these is the Lackenby Steel Works. Middlesbrough station is at the extreme west end, on the new line where the junction with the older branch was formed. Redcar [1st] station at the east end was closed in 1861 with the extension of the line on to Saltburn by the Saltburn Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway).






Dates

  /  /1846Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Line opened from Middlesbrough (passenger connection) and Guisborough Junction (goods/mineral), both off the Middlesbrough Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway), to Redcar [1st]. Stations opened at Middlesbrough, Cleveland Port, Redcar [1st].
  /  /1848Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Lazenby opened.
  /  /1850Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Approximate date of Tod Point opening.
  /  /1853Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Eston opened.
  /  /1861Saltburn Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway)
Opened from Warrenby Junction (Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway) to Saltburn. Stations opened at Redcar, Marske and Saltburn (a temporary platform - replaced the following year).
  /  /1861Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Redcar [1st] closed, including the approach from Warrenby Junction
  /  /1864Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Lazenby closed.
  /  /1867Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Cleveland Port renamed Cargo Fleet [1st].
  /  /1873Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Tod Point closed.
  /  /1877Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Eston renamed Southbank.
  /  /1882Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
South Bank [1st] opened. Southbank renamed Eston.
  /  /1885Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Cargo Fleet [2nd] opened. Cargo Fleet [1st] closed.
  /  /1885Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Eston closed.
  /  /1885Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Eston Grange opened.
  /  /1902Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Eston Grange renamed Grangetown.
  /  /1978Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Portion of line between Redcar Ore Terminal Junction and Warrenby Junction closed.
  /  /1984Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
South Bank opened, replacing South Bank [1st].
  /  /1990Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Cargo Fleet [2nd] closed.
  /  /1991Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway
Grangetown closed.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This is a two platform station. The main station building is on the westbound platform. The platforms are canopied. On the south side of the line and to the west of the station is the signal box, and at the east end several carriage sidings.
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Middlesbrough Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway)
Teesside is the latest destination to benefit from the arrival of LNER's world class trains. The transporter bridge is in the background as an Azuma ...
Network Rail 13/12/2021
Middlesbrough station with signal box in the background. Network Rail will upgrade the signalling in the area this month (November 2021). ...
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View from Middlesbrough platform 1 in August 1997, as a Transrail class 60 passes eastbound with a trainload of empty steel flats heading for ...
John Furnevel 01/08/1997
This is a 2004 view of the signalbox at the west end of Middlesbrough station. The station is off to the left. ...
Ewan Crawford 20/03/2004
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This junction is directly east of Middlesbrough station. It is the junction between the 1846 line east to Redcar Central (most of the line being the former Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway) and the 1853 branch line to Nunthorpe (the former Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway, although Guisborough is no longer served).
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Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway


Whitehouse signal box (at the former Cargo Fleet station) was replaced by York Rail Operating Centre over the weekend. ...
Network Rail 14/11/2021
Eastbound passing the site of Cargo Fleet station and approaching Whitehouse box in 2004. The island platform and a station building here survived ...
Ewan Crawford 29/02/2004
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This was an island platform station on the two southern lines of the quadruple track line. The station building on the platform was canopied and the goods yard was to the south, approached from the east. Its opening led to Southbank station being renamed back to Eston [1st].
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This is a minimal two platform station with staggered platforms. It replaced South Bank [1st], further to the west (which allowed the lines to be realigned through that station's site).
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A locomotive and coke wagon wait by the former Dorman Long cokeworks at South Bank, Teesside. South Bank station's eastbound platform can be seen in ...
Ewan Crawford 29/02/2004
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This station was located just west of Eston Junction [1st], the junction between the Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway and the minerals only Eston Iron Mines (Teesside Ironworks). It is shown at the junction on the Ordnance Survey map dated survey 1853 and published 1857. The station building is shown on the north side of the line.
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This station was to the east of the Cleveland Steel Works on the southern two tracks of the four track line. It replaced Eston [1st] which was to the west of the Cleveland Steel Works. It was an island platform with station building at the west end and signal box at the east end. When the Lackenby Steel Works opened the station was at its west end.
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On the original route of the Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway track can be found still laid in a level crossing followed by a brickwall on the eastern ...
Ewan Crawford 29/02/2004
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