Ferryhill Railway Station Totem Magnet. Free UK shipping. High quality, hand printed metal fridge magnet. British Railway station name sign, in North Eastern region orange.

Ferryhill railway station was located in Ferryhill, County Durham, Northeast England. It was located on what became the East Coast Main Line between Darlington and Durham, close to the junctions with several former branches, including the extant freight-only Stillington Line to Norton-on-Tees and Stockton.

The Clarence Railway reached the town of Ferryhill when its main line from Stockton and Port Clarence opened to mineral traffic on 16 January 1834, and was first served by passenger trains on 11 July 1835. The first station was developed by the Clarence on the current site in 1840, serving a town population of 850. The position was chosen as it lay close to both natural deposits of coal and limestone. The Clarence Railway Act 1829 (10 Geo. 4. c. cvi) gave the Clarence powers to construct branches to Wingate for the City of Durham, Sherburn and Byers Green although only the latter of these ever reached its intended destinations. The Sherburn Branch was only opened as far as Coxhoe whilst the City of Durham Branch made it no further than Thrislington.

The Clarence Railway Byers Green Branch was opened to mineral traffic on 31 March 1837, despite construction not being officially completed for a further 4 years, due to a clause in the railway’s Act requiring the line to be opened no later than 1837. This line saw an intermittent passenger service until it was extended to Bishop Auckland by the North Eastern Railway (NER) in 1885. The Clarence also developed a goods yard on the site, which would later become 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 York. On 11 July 1839 the Great North of England, Clarence and Hartlepool Junction Railway (GNEC&HJR) reached Thrislington, having constructed its line from the Hartlepool Dock and Railway at Wingate and attempted to complete its link to the Clarence and the proposed Great North of England Railway (GNER) trunk line. In 1844, the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway completed their line from Darlington to Gateshead which ran parallel to the Clarence through Ferryhill whilst the Clarence was taken over by the West Hartlepool Harbour & Railway Company.

After the two competing lines were amalgamated within the North Eastern Railway, the final additions to the network around Ferryhill were completed with the opening of a link to the Team Valley line at Durham to goods traffic in September 1872 and express and stopping passenger traffic on 15 January 1872 and 1 March 1872 respectively. To allow the NER to make the station a stop for trains to and from Edinburgh to London King’s Cross that company rebuilt the station as an island platform at a cost of £13,612 in June 1887. These services were continued when the station became part of the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.

Ferryhill Railway Station Totem Magnet, the size of the magnet is 115x30mm and they come on a backing card. There are two magnets on the back, ready to stick on the fridge.

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