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Latitude: 54.5359 / 54°32'9"N
Longitude: -1.5547 / 1°33'16"W
OS Eastings: 428910
OS Northings: 515712
OS Grid: NZ289157
Mapcode National: GBR KHLZ.6S
Mapcode Global: WHC5X.28Y2
Plus Code: 9C6WGCPW+84
Entry Name: North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum)
Listing Date: 28 April 1952
Last Amended: 6 September 1977
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1322962
English Heritage Legacy ID: 110718
Also known as: NRD
ID on this website: 101322962
Location: Hope Town, Darlington, County Durham, DL3
County: Darlington
Electoral Ward/Division: Northgate
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Darlington
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Darlington St Matthew and St Luke
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Railway station
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STATION ROAD
North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum)
(Formerly listed under North Read)
28.4.52.
GV
II*
Railway station, now museum. Opened 1842, replacing the 1833 passenger station that was sited just to the east, by John Harris for the Stockton & Darlington Railway, side wings added 1850s.
Long front building having two storey, six window centre with a loggia whose seven cast iron columns support a bracketed timber cornice. Long, single-storey side wings of differing lenth and irregular fenestration. Walls now roughcast. Slated roofs with eaves soffits and chimney stacks of conjoined hexagonal ashlar shafts at ends of centre block; similar paired or single shafts to wings. Plain, timber-roofed train shed at rear in two unequal spans with row of cast iron columns. Short flanking sheds with cast iron supports to lean-to roofs against the front building. Good example of early, straight forward railway station. Now in use as a railway museum.
Graded for its association with the Stockton & Darlington Railway, opened 1825, which was highly influential both nationally and internationally for the development of railways
Listing NGR: NZ2891015712
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