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Crook railway station served the town of Crook, County Durham, England. It was located on the Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway line from to Blackhill between Wear Valley Junction and Tow Law, north west of . == History == The Stockton and Darlington Railway backed Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway had received Parliamentary backing to build a railway from via to the town of Crook in 1842. The line was duly completed the following year, with trains running as far as Bishop Auckland from 30 January 1843 and through to Crook from 8 November that year (albeit for goods traffic only).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Crook )〕 The exact opening date for passenger traffic isn't known, though authorisation was granted on 3 January 1844 for services to begin - these ran initially on Thursdays-only to serve the Crook town market day〔 (being so listed in the July 1844 issue of Bradshaw's Railway Guide), but by January 1845 the station was in full-time use. The S&D subsequently extended the route northwards from Crook as the Weardale Extension Railway (WXR) towards Tow Law and Waskerley in May 1845, where it joined the Stanhope and Tyne Railway. This route was built to give the Derwent Iron Company a southward outlet for its works at Consett - it included a rope-worked incline at Sunnyside and began to carry passenger traffic in 1847, which was also the year that the WXR was amalgamated with the BA&WR. The station initially noted as being at the end of a short stub off the two main lines following the opening of the route northwards, but a replacement through station was authorised by the S&D in September 1856; this was subsequently built & commissioned but the precise opening date was not recorded.〔 This only had the one (reversible) platform on a loop off the main line〔(Railscot - Weardale Extension Railway ) www.railbrit.co.uk; Retrieved 20-10-2013〕 - a configuration that was used in several other locations on the S&D system (e.g. , and Bishop Auckland itself), with a sizeable goods yard nearby that served the adjacent West Colliery, coke ovens, fire clay works and chemical plant. Another route to the town - the Deerness Valley Railway from Durham via Waterhouses was completed in January 1858 - this joined the WXR route just north of the town and was constructed by the S&D at the behest of Joseph Pease, whose company owned the colliery & associated ''Bank Foot'' industrial complex opposite the station. This route though was only used by goods traffic, as passenger trains terminated at Waterhouses throughout the line's existence (final closure occurring in December 1964). The S&D duly took over the BA&WR in 1858, which in turn became part of the North Eastern Railway in 1863. This led to a number of infrastructure improvements on the route, including the replacement of the Sunnyside incline with a less-steeply graded deviation along with new station at Tow Law from 2 March 1868 and the commissioning of a connection onto the recently opened Derwent Valley Line near Blackhill that gave access to on 6 May the same year. Passenger services could then run through from Darlington to Blackhill and beyond - this was the usual pattern of service in NER days.〔 From 1896, it was also possible to reach Newcastle via following the completion of upgrade work on the original S&T route through . The station passed into the hands of the London and North Eastern Railway at the 1923 Grouping and subsequently into the North Eastern Region of British Railways upon nationalisation in January 1948. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crook railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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