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North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum)

A Grade II* Listed Building in Northgate, Darlington

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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

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

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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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