Ravenstonedale
An interesting dry-stone walled cutting on the NER (SDLUR) route from Tebay to Kirkby Stephen, approx. 1 mile east of Ravenstonedale Station. Sandy Bank signal cabin was immediately west of this cutting and marked the transition from double track (west) to single (east), until 1931.
Closed to regular passenger traffic in 1952, heavy mineral trains continued until 1962 ensuring supplies of coke from the Durham coalfield to the Iron and Steel industry of Barrow and west Cumberland. Summer excursion traffic from Durham, Newcastle and Sunderland to Blackpool continued to be routed over Barnard Castle, Stainmore, Kirkby Stephen and Tebay until closure of the line. Additionally a Durham Miners Special ran once a fortnight conveying injured miners to convalesce at Conishead Priory.
Location: Ravenstonedale
Original line: South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway
Photographer: Brian Taylor
Contact photographer: Brian Taylor
Date: 08/06/2015
Image number: 51655
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