Allendale
Location type
StationNames and dates
Catton Road (1869-1898)Allendale (1898-1930)
Opened on the Hexham and Allendale Railway.
Description
This was the terminus of the line from Border Counties Junction near Hexham. The station was not intended to be the terminus, being over a mile north west of Allendale Town itself. It was intended to run further south to Allenheads. Defeat was admitted in 1898 when the station was renamed Allendale.
The terminus was opened in a field to the north of the Allen Smelting Mill, a lead works, which was served by a mineral line.
The station had a single platform, on the north side of a loop, with the line terminating at a turntable. To the north was a goods yard and to the south the line to the smelter. The station building was stone built and of two storeys with a glazed canopy.
The lead works closed in 1896. The line closed to passengers in 1930 and completely in 1950.
The station building still stands. The site is now a caravan park with a flat in the former station building offering accommodation. Allendale Holidays
Further south at Allenheads there were more lead smelters.
Tags
Station terminusExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Bishopside Halt Milk Platform Staward Halt Langley Elrington Halt Haydon Bridge [1st] Haydon Bridge Bardon Mill Fourstones Hexham Wall Haltwhistle Gilderdale Alston Featherstone Park Kirkhaugh | Allen Smelting Mill Langley Lead Works Henshaw Colliery Plenmeller Opencast Glen due Quarry Blackett Colliery Melkridge Sidings Fourstones Colliery and Lime Works Tyne Viaduct [Border Counties] Border Counties Junction Acomb Shed Acomb Colliery Junction [1st] Acomb Colliery Junction [2nd] Whitchester Tunnel Tourist/other Langley Castle |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 Newcastle to Hexham: Including the Allendale Branch (Eastern Main Lines) |
