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Subterranea Britannica: SB-Sites: Wear Valley Junction Station (1004 words) |
 | The design of the main station building was similar in appearance to others on the Wear valley branch line, with steeply pitched stone slabbed roofs, tall projecting chimney stacks and stone embellishments to the external walls. |
| A plan to penetrate Weardale proper was covered by the Wear Valley Act of July 1845, which was to provide a line from Witton Junction (Wear Valley Junction) on the Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway to Frosterley, with a connecting branch to Bishopley, this opened on 3rd August 1847.. |
| In 1862 the Wear Valley line was extended to Stanhope by the Frosterley and Stanhope railway, mainly to reach the Newlandside Estate on the south side of the town where large quantities of limestone were known to exist. |
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Wear Valley in County Durham on the British Towns and Villages Network (188 words) |
| The District of Wear Valley is located in the County of County Durham in The Northern Counties of England, it covers an administrative area of 505Km² and in 2001 was home to a population of 61,600 persons, that represents 0.13% of that of England and 0.00% of the population of the entire United Kingdom. |
| Parish Meeting(s) in the District of Wear Valley |
| Island Community(s) in the District of Wear Valley |
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