Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Weardale Extension Railway

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The Stockton and Darlington Railway built this line for the Derwent Iron Co and it opened in 1845. It ran from the Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway at Crook to the Wear and Derwent Railway at Waskerley.

In 1847 it was sold to the Wear Valley Railway and became unofficially known as the Wear and Derwent Junction Railway

Sources of Information

  • Encyclopedia of British Railway Companies by Christopher Awdry. Published 1990