Bedlington Station

  • Description

    "....The station was situated inconveniently about a mile north-east of the town, in the village of Sleekburn and close to Bedlington Colliery and several terraces of miners’ cottages. NER statistics showed a population of 14,755 served by the station in 1911.By the 1920s ribbon development of terraces along the main road linked Bedlington town to its station, and in the inter-war years residential development grew in the vicinity of the station. The 1961 O.S. one-inch map recognised Bedlington Station as an urban area in its own right...."
  • Owner

    Disused Stations
  • Source

    Local (Co-Curate)
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  • Further information

    Link: http://disused-stations.org.uk/b/bedlington/index.shtml
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Peter Smith
    Last modified: 4 years, 6 months ago
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