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Saltburn Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway)

Introduction

This line is open. It extended the former Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway east to Saltburn, a town expanded by the arrival of the railway and promoted as a resort by the Saltburn Improvement Company. The line is double track and carries both passengers and freight.

Dates

/ /1861	Saltburn 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).
/ /1862	Saltburn Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway) Permanent Saltburn station building opened. Architect William Peachey.
/ /1929	Saltburn Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway) Saltburn East opened.
/ /1950	Saltburn Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway) Redcar renamed Redcar Central.
/ /1978	Saltburn Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway) Portion of line abandoned when a deviation is opened to the south of the original alignment close to the former Warrenby Junction.
/ /1978	Saltburn Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway) Line cut back at Saltburn and the trainshed demolished.
/ /1985	Saltburn Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway) Longbeck opened.
/ /1990	Saltburn Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway) The main station building at Redcar Central falls out of railway use.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

Warrenby Junction

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Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway

Redcar Central

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A Northern Pacer bound for Saltburn about to pass below Birdsall Row footbridge shortly after leaving Redcar Central on 5 June 2013. The land off to ...
John Furnevel 05/06/2013

A Saltburn service pulls away from the staggered eastbound platform 2 at Redcar on 13 October 2009. The train is passing the south wall of the large ...
John Furnevel 13/10/2009

Part of the large 1861 former station at Redcar Central, photographed looking west in June 2013. The building is now Redcar Station Business ...
John Furnevel 05/06/2013

The signal box at Redcar Central looking south in 2009 with the station on the other side of the level crossing. The UK's first powered sliding ...
John Furnevel 13/10/2009

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Redcar East

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Longbeck

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Marske

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The refurbished and re-roofed former goods shed at Marske, between Redcar and Saltburn, seen looking south across the running lines on 13 October ...
John Furnevel 13/10/2009

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Saltburn Junction

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Saltburn Extension (North Eastern Railway)

Saltburn

This station opened in 1861, a temporary platform. The permanent station opened in 1862.
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Part of the original 1861 Stockton & Darlington Railway station building at Saltburn seen looking west along Dundas Street on a summer afternoon in ...
John Furnevel 03/08/2008

The North Sea (above the left side of the letter H) seen through a Northern train at Saltburn. ...
Ken Strachan 09/04/2022

A Northern Sprinter preparing to leave platform 1 at a sunny Saltburn with a mid afternoon service for Bishop Auckland in April 2008. The original ...
John Furnevel 03/04/2008

Pacer 143001, in Regional Railways livery, at Saltburn in 1989. Later transferred to South Wales as 143601 it clings to life in 2021 with an ...
Bill Roberton //1989

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Saltburn Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway)

Introduction

Dates

Locations along the line

Warrenby Junction

Redcar Central

Redcar East

Longbeck

Marske

Saltburn Junction

Saltburn

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