RAILSCOT | Wear Valley Junction

Station

Junction
Witton Junction
Wear Valley Junction

Opened on the Wear Valley Railway.
Opened on the Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway.

Nearby stations Etherley and Witton Park [1st] Beechburn [2nd] Witton Park for Escomb Witton-le-Wear [2nd] Witton-le-Wear [1st] Beechburn [1st] Hunwick Crook [1st] Crook [2nd] Bishop Auckland West Willington [Y and NR] Bishop Auckland [NER] Bishop Auckland Byers Green [2nd] West Auckland	North Bitchburn Witton Park Colliery Phoenix Pit Etherley North Incline Hunwick Colliery Sunnybrow Incline Newton Cap Colliery Helmington Incline Bowden Close Junction Willington Colliery Newfield Colliery Newton Cap Viaduct Todhills Incline Etherley Dene Stanley Branch Junction
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

/ /1847	Wear Valley Railway Line opened from Etherley (Wear Valley Junction, then simply known as Junction) to Frosterley with a branch to Bishopley Quarry.
/ /1864	Buncrana Branch (Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway) Opened from Junction to Buncrana. Farland Point was left as a short branch from the junction.
/ /1866	Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Junction to Farland Point closed.
/ /1883	Letterkenny Railway Opened from Burnfoot Junction (on the site of the former Junction) (Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway) to Letterkenny [LR], the first portion reusing just over 2 miles of the former approach to Farland Point which closed in 1866.
/ /1965	Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway Crook [1st] to Wear Valley Junction closed. Beechburn [2nd], Etherley [2nd] closed.