Closed Stations Journey quiz

[A Challenge]

Newton Poppleford

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

East Budleigh

 

[A Challenge]

Budleigh Salterton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Littleham is the final closed station on this journey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next move to England for the next journey.....

This is number 768 in the series so far.....

The journey starts at the closed station of Amble
It follows the line of the N&BR Amble Branch Line
It then follows the line of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway
It then follows the line of the Blyth and Tyne Railway...via BOTH Seaton Delaval and Prospect Hill
It then follows the line of the NER Riverside Branch Line
It then follows the line of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway...link line only, no closed stations
It then follows the line of the North Eastern Railway Main Line
It then follows the line of the Foss Islands Branch Line....doubts exist regarding station validity
It then follows the line of the Derwent Valley Light Railway
The journey ends at the closed station of Cliffe Common

The first closed station on this journey is Amble

 

[A Challenge]

Broomhill

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Chevington

 

[A Challenge]

Longhirst

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ashington Colliery Junction (1871-1878)

 

[A Challenge]

Hepscott

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Choppington

 

[A Challenge]

Bedlington

 

[DerekC]

Bebside

 

[A Challenge]

Newsham

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hartley

 

[DerekC]

Hartley Pit

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Seaton Delaval

 

[A Challenge]

Seghill

 

[DerekC]

Backworth (1st station - 1847 to 1864)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Prospect Hill

 

[Whistler40145]

Backworth (2nd station)

 

[Whistler40145]

Percy Main

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Percy Main

Sorry, but this is now a currently-open station on the Tyne and Wear Metro.

 

[Whistler40145]

Sorry, but this is now a currently-open station on the Tyne and Wear Metro.

I give up then

 

[A Challenge]

Backworth?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Backworth?

Sorry, not so, You appear to have passed the connection point with the next leg of this journey, the NER Riverside branch line, which was disregarded by those who were instrumental in configuring the former rail lines to become those of the Tyne and Wear Metro.

 

[Whistler40145]

Carville?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Carville?

We first would have had to pass through the closed stations of Willington Quay, then Point Pleasant, prior to that one....but to continue.....

Walker

 

[Whistler40145]

St. Anthonys

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

St. Peters

Note the next closed station (closed as long ago as 1954) is NOT the same as the one on the Tyne and Wear Metro, as that was built on a brand new alignment, well removed from the NER Riverside branch line.