Beamish railway station

The station opened on 1 February 1894 by the North Eastern Railway. The signal box was to the south and to the east was a goods shed with four sidings and a loading bank. Passenger numbers started to decline in the 1920s when bus services were introduced. This led to the station closing on 21 September 1953.[1] It remained open to goods until 2 August 1960. The station itself was demolished but the signal box remained until 1982. After it was demolished, the signal box from Carrhouse was dismantled and installed at Beamish Museum.[2]

On 9 December 1964, twenty three coal wagons uncoupled from a shunter and ran down the line until colliding with another goods train. This resulted in one death and the line being blocked for several days. Sixty men had to work on cleaning up the debris while the trains were diverted via Lanchester.[2]