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Ferryhill railway station was a railway station located in Ferryhill in County Durham, Northeast England. It was located on the East Coast Main Line between Darlington and near the junctions with the branch line from Norton-On-Tees and the Leamside Line. ==History== The Clarence Railway reached the village of Ferryhill on its Durham branch, opening for freight from and Stockton on 16 January 1834. The position was chosen as it lay close to both natural deposits of coal and limestone. On 3 July 1837, approval was given to develop a branch to for , but only reached . A second branch went west, eventually reaching , which later was extended by the NER to .〔 The first station was developed by the Clarence on the current site in 1840, serving a village population the of 850. The Clarence also developed a goods yard on the site, which latterly became one of the busiest in Europe between the 1920s and the 1950s. During World War II, the goods yard became the main alternative for all freight to ,〔 mainly due to volume of traffic but also occasional Nazi Luftwaffe bombing. In 1844, the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway ran a line parallel to the Clarence south along the same route. After the Clarence was taken over by the Hartlepool Docks and Railway Company, they added a third branch east to , with services beginning in October 1846.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clarence Railway )〕 After the two competing lines were amalgamated within the North Eastern Railway (NER), in June 1887 that railway company rebuilt the station as an island platform at a cost of £13,612. This was to allow the NER to make the station a stop for trains to and from Edinburgh to London Kings Cross. These services were continued when the station became part of the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.〔 To allow for better servicing of locomotives in the area, the NER built an adjacent engine shed in 1871, which as the coal mines in the area declined was closed from 1938.〔 In 1902 Bolckow Vaughan sank the Dean and Chapter Colliery just south of the station, which until its closure in 1969 provided much of the station's traffic. The development included a coking coal works, which closed in 1930. In 1946 both Dean and Chapter and the local Mainsforth Colliery were nationalised and taken over by the National Coal Board.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ferryhill )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ferryhill railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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