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Alston Station, Alston
Alston Station
site name:-   Alston branch railway
site name:-   South Tynedale Railway
locality:-   Alston
civil parish:-   Alston Moor (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway station
coordinates:-   NY71704672
1Km square:-   NY7146
10Km square:-   NY74
SummaryText:-   Opened 1852; closed 1976, but now in use for the South Tynedale Railway.


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BMI82.jpg  The line is now narrow gauge.
(taken 7.7.2006)  
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BMI83.jpg (taken 7.7.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 34 9) 
item:-  railway signal
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
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CSRY0192.jpg
"Station / S.P."
at Alston 

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Station House
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"STATION HOUSE / / STATION ROAD / ALSTON MOOR / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73142 / NY7170846714"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Station with station-master's house; built 1852 as terminus to Alston branch of Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. Coursed, squared rubble with string course between floors. Welsh slate roofs with corniced stone chimneys; gabled ends to cross wings have stone copings with ball finials to kneelers and apex. Tudor style. Symmetrical 2-storey, 4-bay front; each projecting wing has part-glazed door with hoodmould and 4-centred arched head. Single sash in lugged surround to either side; 3-light mullioned window with hoodmould to 1st floor. Two 2-light mullioned windows with hoodmoulds to each floor of main block. West elevation has 2 part-glazed doors with pointed heads to centre. Canted bay and panelled door to left, 4-centred heads to paired windows on right. 2 original 1st floor openings in north wing were replaced by single sash; main block has central sash in lugged surround. Single-storey lean-to added at south end. Original ticket window in north wall; later, flat-roofed, toilet block adjoins north end."


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CGK91.jpg  View N.
(taken 1.9.2017)  


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CGK87.jpg  Station and train.
(taken 1.9.2017)  
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CGK92.jpg  Seat.
(taken 1.9.2017)  
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CGK83.jpg  Luggage trolley.
(taken 1.9.2017)  
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CGK84.jpg  Buffers.
(taken 1.9.2017)  
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CGK85.jpg  Crane.
(taken 1.9.2017)  
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CCL71.jpg  Crane.
(taken 20.2.2015)  
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CGK86.jpg  Water tower.
(taken 1.9.2017)  
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BMI84.jpg  No trespassing notice, North Eastern Railway, NER.
(taken 7.7.2006)  
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CGK95.jpg (taken 1.9.2017)  
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CGK96.jpg  Sheds N of station.
(taken 1.9.2017)  
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CGK97.jpg  Sheds N of station.
(taken 1.9.2017)  


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BRD32.jpg (taken 25.7.2009)  courtesy of The Hub, Alston.
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CGK76.jpg (taken 1.9.2017)  courtesy of The Hub, Alston.
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CGK75.jpg (taken 1.9.2017)  courtesy of The Hub, Alston.

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