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OS grid reference
  
NY665915

Country
  
Post town
  
HEXHAM

Local time
  
Tuesday 11:19 AM

UK parliament constituency
  
Region
  
Sovereign state
  
Postcode district
  
NE48

Ceremonial county
  
Plashetts Plashetts village Kielder Art amp Architecture

Weather
  
4°C, Wind SW at 35 km/h, 69% Humidity

Unitary authority
  
Northumberland County Council

Plashetts is a small settlement in Northumberland, in England south east of Kielder, Northumberland. It is about 22 miles (35 km) north west of Hexham. Part of the settlement is now beneath the surface of Kielder Water.

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Plashetts Disused Stations Plashetts Station

Governance

The area is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham.

Economy

Plashetts Disused Stations Plashetts Station

There was a coal mine opened in the 1850s by the Duke of Northumberland. The mine was closed in 1964 by the National Coal Board. Employment was highest in 1914 when 126 men and boys were employed.

Transport

Plashetts Disused Stations Plashetts Station

Plashetts was served by Plashetts railway station on the Border Counties Railway which linked the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, near Hexham, with the Border Union Railway at Riccarton Junction. The first section of the route was opened between Hexham and Chollerford in 1858, the remainder opening in 1862. The line was closed to passengers by British Railways in 1956. Part of the line is now beneath the surface of Kielder Water.

Plashetts Plashetts village Kielder Art amp Architecture

The station had a single platform and very tall signal box. This was a fairly substantial station having a waggonway branch, which ran from here up Slater's incline, to the Plashetts and Far Colliery. To the north of the station were one or two houses and at the end of the waggonway a miners village. The bottom of the incline is now a pier used by the ferryboat service on the lake.

Plashetts Photographs of Northumberland by Peter Loud Keilder

Plashetts Plashetts Incline Mick Garratt Geograph Britain and Ireland

Plashetts Plashetts Incline Viewpoint Great Outdoors in Hexham Kielder

Plashetts Plashetts village Kielder Art amp Architecture

Plashetts England39s Underwater Cities Plashetts METAL AND DUST

Plashetts Remains of Shop Row Plashetts Les Hull ccbysa20 Geograph

Plashetts Falstone Plashetts View

References

Plashetts Wikipedia


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