Place Plashetts Grid reference NY666902 2 September 1861 Station opened Platforms in use 1 | Area Northumberland Pre-grouping North British Railway Original company Border Counties Railway | |
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
North Eastern Region of British Railways Similar Deadwater railway station, Falstone railway station, Reedsmouth railway station, Langley‑on‑Tyne railway station, Fontburn Halt railway st | ||
Plashetts railway station is a closed stone built railway station that served the mining hamlet of Plashetts, in Northumberland, England, which is now beneath the surface of Kielder Water.
History
Plashetts railway station was 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.
The station had a single platform and a 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 station is now submerged beneath Kielder Water.