Killingworth railway station information

Killingworth railway station served the town of Killingworth, Tyne and Wear, England from 1847 to 1965 on the East Coast Main Line. The station opened...

Killingworth, formerly Killingworth Township, is a town in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It lies within the historic county of Northumberland...

locomotives to work in the Killingworth Colliery between 1814 and 1826. George Stephenson was appointed as engine-wright at Killingworth Colliery in 1812 and...

Extended Colliery at Killingworth was closed during an industrial slump in 1962. Although the area surrounding the railway station was once an industrial...

built at Killingworth Colliery workshops around 1815–1820. In 1900 the North Eastern Railway started replacing the gas lighting in the station with electric...

built for use at Killingworth or for the Hetton colliery railway. A six-wheeled locomotive was built for the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway in 1817 but was...

Runner built 1927". Retrieved 7 July 2015. "Stephenson Railway Museum | Culture24". "Killingworth Billy locomotive 'one of world's oldest'". BBC News. 14...

locomotives of Trevithick, Murray and Hedley, persuaded the manager of the Killingworth colliery where he worked to allow him to build a steam-powered machine...

Stephenson on his Killingworth Railway. Stephenson advocated the use of steam locomotives on the line. Pease visited Killingworth in mid-1822 and the...

Newcastle New Bridge Street was a railway station on the edge of the city-centre of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. The station was the original Newcastle terminus...

and Wear, England. It is 4 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne. It borders Killingworth to the north, Holystone to the east and Benton to the south. The village...

Monkwearmouth Railway Station is a former station that served Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, England, from 1848 to 1967. It was built in 1848 to a design...

locomotive on the Killingworth Wagonway, where he worked. His designs were successful, and when the Stockton and Darlington Railway was opened in 1825...

Backworth railway station served part of Newcastle in the English county of Northumberland, later part of Tyne and Wear. The station opened as Hotspur...

and a (newly identified) Killingworth Billy in 1816. He also constructed The Duke in 1817 for the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, which was the first steam...

the north. Within its bounds are the towns of Wallsend, North Shields, Killingworth, Tynemouth and Whitley Bay, which form a continuously built-up area contiguous...

also the first railway in Scotland to trial a steam locomotive. It was the Blücher that George Stephenson had used at the Killingworth Colliery. This...

steam locomotives, Pease visited Killingworth in the summer of 1822, and the directors visited Hetton colliery railway, on which George had also introduced...

Gateshead railway station served the town of Gateshead, England between 1844 and 1981. It was situated on the northern and western sides of the triangular...

Lamesley railway station served the village of Lamesley, Tyne and Wear, England from 1868 to 1959 on the East Coast Main Line. The station opened on 1...

conical rails. The Killingworth Colliery railway was also 4ft 8in gauge. A History and Description of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. T. Taylor, 1832...

Wallsend Coal Company's private railway (which later had several branch line extensions to Seahampton, Fairley, and Killingworth) via Cockle Creek junction...

Birtley railway station served the town of Birtley, Tyne and Wear, England, from 1868 to 1955 on the East Coast Main Line. The station opened on 1 December...

delivered No. 2 on 10 September 1831. These locomotives were of the "Killingworth" type, considered even at this date rather old-fashioned: Dodds had a...

Forest Hall railway station served the village of Forest Hall, Tyne and Wear, England from 1856 to 1958 on the East Coast Main Line. The station opened as...