Border Counties Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Border Counties Junction (1858-1958)Opened on the Border Counties Railway.
Opened on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway.
Opened on the Hexham and Allendale Railway.
Description
This was the junction between the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway (opened here in 1836), the Border Counties Railway (opened here in 1858) and the Hexham and Allendale Railway (opened here in 1867. All three of these lines were opened in portions.
The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway was double track, the two branches single track. Both later lines joined allowing approach from Hexham, to the east. The Border Counties line started with a double track and immediately reduced to a single track to cross the Tyne Viaduct [Border Counties] as it ran north. The Allendale line started from immediately to the west of the first connection and also reduced to a single line. This ran parallel and on the south side of the double track main line for a quarter of a mile before parting and running west and then south west.
The junction was crossed by a gantry signal box. This was replaced with a new box slightly further east, just beyond the junction, on the south side of the line.
The Allendale line closed in 1950 and the Border Counties in 1958, partly due to the condition of the viaduct over the Tyne.
Today there is no junction here. The piers of the viaduct can eb seen to the north.
Tags
JunctionExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Hexham Wall Fourstones Humshaugh Elrington Halt Chollerton Corbridge Haydon Bridge [1st] Haydon Bridge Barrasford Riding Mill Langley Allendale Wark Staward Halt | Tyne Viaduct [Border Counties] Acomb Shed Acomb Colliery Junction [1st] Acomb Colliery Acomb Colliery Acomb Colliery Coke Ovens Acomb Colliery Junction [2nd] Howford Brick and Tile Works Hexham Shed Fourstones Colliery and Lime Works Black Pasture Quarry Glen due Quarry Brunton Lime Works Cocklaw Quarry Tourist/other Chesters Bridge |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1867 | Hexham and Allendale Railway Opened from Border Counties Junction (Hexham) to Langley. |
| 15/10/1956 | Border Counties Railway Riccarton Junction to Hexham (Border Counties Junction) closed to passengers. |
| 01/09/1958 | Border Counties Railway Reedsmouth (excluded) to Border Counties Junction closed to freight. |
