Falstone Station

  • Description

    ".....The station was a temporary terminus, in 1861-62, as the Border Counties Railway pushed from Hexham towards Riccarton Junction. The platform on the up side, extended to 85yd, had a two-storey L-plan house with corbelled gables. A single-storey section extended south. A siding, with goods dock, was set into the south end of the platform, and a loop faced the platform with a further siding at the north end of the station. A signal box was sited on the platform. Just north of Falstone Station a siding linked to an inclined tramway to Hawkhope Hill Colliery....."
  • Owner

    Disused Stations
  • Source

    Local (Co-Curate)
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  • Further information

    Link: http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/f/falstone/index.shtml
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 3 years, 12 months ago
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