Murton

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Murton

Opened on the Durham and Sunderland Railway.

Chronology Dates

28/06/1839Durham and Sunderland Railway
Murton to Shincliffe branch opened.
  /  /1855Durham and Sunderland Railway Hartlepool Dock and Railway
Following a North Eastern Railway study of Sunderland to Hartlepool services a connection at Haswell, alterations at Seaton and Murton and a new staton for Sunderland are recommended.

Books


Line Diagrams of the North Eastern Railway. Stockton - Hartlepool - Sunderland - Newcastle

Railways of Sunderland

Sunderland's Railways

Tynemouth, Sunderland and NE Coalfield 1895: One Inch Sheet 15 and 21 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Inch to the Mile)