Ghost train #13 - BroomieLaw Station Traditional Cache
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Ghost train #13 - BroomieLaw Station
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This is the 13th in our series and is located quite close to the original ststion of BroomieLaw.
The station is virtually intact although in a very dilapidated condition. The platform is heavily overgrown but the brick and timber station building including the canopy although in a very poor condition. The covered stairway down from the road above has gone. At the west end of the station the signal box is also extant and in a similar condition. A number of small buildings also survive alongside the siding to the north of the station. The station house on the road above is now a private residence.
While the other stations on the Darlington - Barnard Castle line opened to the public on the 9th July 1856, the day after the formal opening, Broomielaw opened on the 8th July as a private halt for the Bowes-Lyon family who lived in nearby Streatham castle. The station had a single platform located in a cutting on the up side of the line with a covered stairway down from the road above. At one time john Bowes was so proud of Broomielaw station that he named one of his horses after it in 1862. Broomielaw won the Chester cup and the Prince of Wales stakes.
Although private the halt was used by children from the local village who caught excursion trains. The station was opened to the public on 9th June 1942. The station had no general freight facilities although a siding were provided on the north side of the line controlled by a signal box to the west of the station and Broomielaw did handle parcels and continued to do so until final closure of the line on 5th April 1965.
Once parked head back towards the main road and then down the lane. It is possible to drive down but there is only one place to turn around and that is in someone's driveway!!!
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