Tyne Valley Line

The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, also known as the Tyne Valley Line, a double-track, standard gauge, not electrified railway line, the Newcastle upon Tyne is connecting with Carlisle in Cumbria.

Location

The route follows the valley of the Tyne.

History

Was built with the distance of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company ( N & CR) to an authorization granted on May 22, 1829 in sections from 1834. Chief engineer from 1828 to 1836 was Francis Giles. Principal economic drive for railway construction were the coal, lead and iron ore deposits along the Tyne Valley. At the same time she was the first rail link between east and west coasts of the British Isles, which should also secure the transport of goods between the industrial center of Newcastle and Ireland. The total distance was opened on June 18, 1838 for passenger and ended in Carlisle, first in London Road Train Station. The Tyne was with a provisional bridge - opened on 21 October 1839 - in Scotswood, Newcastle west crossed, so that the trains could now traverse and the city center of Newcastle. Previously had this part of the trip with a passenger ferry to be performed.

The N & CR has been taken over in 1862 by the North Eastern Railway (NER ). The trains now went to the Carlisle Citadel station and its train station London Road was closed. 1870, the last of the four successively built in Scotswood Bridge was built. In 1923, in a first step towards the consolidation of the railways in Britain after the First World War with the Railways Act 1921, the NER January 1, 1923 in the London and North Eastern Railway ( LNER ) merged. In 1948 it was nationalized and taken over by the British Rail.

1982 British Rail closed the historic bridge in Scotswood to save maintenance. The track chain is now south of Newcastle in Gateshead from the East Coast Main Line from and used their bridge, the King Edward VII Bridge to cross the Tyne.

Conservation

Five reception building two bridges and the route are classified as cultural monuments.

The railway line runs parallel to Hadrian's Wall. Combined day tickets, which also applies to the bus route that serves the sights of Hadrian's Wall, are available. Interchanges exist in Hexham and Haltwhistle.

Feeders

The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway had four branches:

  • The Border Counties Railway in Hexham, who joined in Hawick in the Scottish rail network. The track lost passenger traffic in 1956 and 1958 was largely shut down.
  • The route to Allendale also branched off here and served mainly the removal of minerals. Thus, the passenger is already set in the 1930s and shut down the track in 1953.
  • From Haltwhistle the Alston Line led by Alston, which was built at the beginning because of the local lead mines, but also the persons served. On the route there was the monumental Lambley Viaduct. She was the last of the side streets which - was shut down - 1976. A part of the route, starting from Alston is now used by a narrow gauge heritage railway, the South Tynedale Railway and another part of the route follows the South Tyne Trail hiking route.
  • Another branch led from Brampton station to the homonymous village. This route has already been shut down in 1923. The block location for the branch, Brampton Junction, has continued to provide the connection to Lord Carlisle 's Railway, a railway industry, older than the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway itself The Lord Carlisle 's Railway in Lambley had a connection to the branch line to Alston.

Traffic

Passenger traffic on the route is served by the Northern Rail and First ScotRail with diesel railcars. In freight transport, the route is heavily traveled, mainly by DB Schenker Rail (UK), formerly: English, Welsh and Scottish Railway ( EWS ). It is also the shortest route between the East Coast Main Line and the West Coast Mainline and therefore in the case of closures or malfunctions an important alternative route.

Worth knowing

In the station of Brampton (formerly Milton ), 1836 Thomas Edmondson was station master and there invented the system of Edmondsonsche ticket.

Pictures

Station sign with reference to Hadrian's Wall

Footbridge and signal box from 1901 in Haltwhistle (1988 )

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