Beamish Museum: Town railway

Marking the northern boundary of the Beamish Museum, next to The Town, is a railway. At the western end is a complex comprising a goods area, station and signal box. There are two footbridges at either end, the eastern one linking the station with the road that heads west, to become the main street. All of these elements form the northern border the Events field. Immediately beyond the western bridge, two tracks enter the northern portion of the Beamish Waggon & Iron Works, providing under cover storage. East of the eastern footrbidge, the railway continues as a single track behind the northern edge of the Town, ending at a buffer stop near the tramway.

General views

Looking east from the station

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Looking east from the western bridge

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  Showing the station, signal box & eastern bridge
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  Showing the station, signal box & eastern bridge
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  Showing the station, signal box, eastern bridge & part of the goods shed
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  Showing the station, signal box, eastern bridge & part of the goods yard
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  Showing the station, signal box, eastern bridge & part of the goods yard
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  Showing the station, signal box, eastern bridge & part of the goods yard

Looking west from the east footbridge

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  Signal box on the right
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  Showing station & signal box
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  Showing station & signal box
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  Showing western bridge & station
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  Showing western bridge & station
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  Showing western bridge & station
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  Showing goods shed, iron works doors, western bridge & station
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  Showing goods shed, station & signal box
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  Showing goods shed, station & signal box
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  Showing coal drops, goods shed, station & signal box
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  Showing the western bridge & station platform

Looking west from the station

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  Showing the goods shed & western bridge
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  Showing the coal drop, goods shed & western bridge

Eastern track

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  The view east from the eastern bridge
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  The view east from the eastern bridge
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  Hall's Distemper advert, a few yards east of the east footbridge, on the north embankment
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Eastern footbridge

Object location	54° 53′ 20.55″ N, 1° 39′ 46.5″ W	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	54.889043; -1.662916

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  From the east

Signal box

Object location	54° 53′ 20.51″ N, 1° 39′ 47.73″ W	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	54.889031; -1.663259

Exterior

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  From the eastern bridge
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  From the eastern bridge
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  From the west, along the path from the station
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  From the west, along the path from the station

Interior: Lever frame

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Signal box siding

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  Looking SW

Station

There is a single station building, with single side platform, fronting onto the north side of the track.

General views

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  Viewed from the opposite embankment, to the south east
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  Viewed from across the tracks to the goods platforms/coal drop

Platform

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  Eastern end
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  Bench (from the west)

Station building

Object location	54° 53′ 19.67″ N, 1° 39′ 50.94″ W	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	54.888798; -1.664150

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  Western end
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  Fire fighting equipment & Ticket window
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  Fire fighting equipment
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  Ticket window

Goods Yard

The Goods yard consists of a Shed with a V-shaped platform extending east, with a crane installed on it; the track to the north continues into the shed, the track on the south platform ends in an open siding. North of the shed is an open storage siding. Another siding to the south continues to the coal drop, with road access to the coal from the resulting triangular shaped yard area between the drop siding and the south shed siding. A weighbridge stands at the road access to the yard, on its southern edge.

Goods shed & platform

Object location	54° 53′ 17.97″ N, 1° 39′ 53.22″ W	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	54.888325; -1.664783

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  Triangular platform, from the SE
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  Wagons in the north siding
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  Wagons in the north siding
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  Wagons in the north siding & storage siding
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  Wagons in the north siding & storage siding
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  Facing east, in the north platform
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  Facing east, in the south platform
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  The south side of the shed, showing the open air siding
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  The platform crane

Storage siding

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  From the western footbridge
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  From the north, across the main line

Yard

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  Wagons on the south siding, viewed from inside the coal drops
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  Traction engines backed up onto the coal pile from the drops (also showing south siding track)
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  The view east across the south siding/yard
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  The view east across the south siding/yard

Coal drops

54.888021°N 1.664681°W / 54.888021; -1.664681

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  the yard side/buffer stop end
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  the yard side/buffer stop end
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  the yard side/railway end
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  north (yard) side
  WX 6358
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  one of the bays
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  WX 6358

Weighbridge

Object location	54° 53′ 16.01″ N, 1° 39′ 52.1″ W	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	54.887781; -1.664472

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  from the SW
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  from the NW

Western end (Waggon & Iron Works)

The tracks from the station continue west into a double-tracked shed, built into the northern part of the Waggon & Iron Works building. The northern goods track also continues to a buffer stop at the building.

Western footbridge

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  East side

Eastern facade

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Shed double-door/sidings

Object location	54° 53′ 17.38″ N, 1° 39′ 55.87″ W	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	54.888161; -1.665520

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