Explore Abandoned Stainmore Railway Signal Box & Huge Belah Viaduct

Abandoned & Lost Railways of Cumbria | Stainmore - Barras to Kirkby Stephen. Many railway companies paid attention to it’s potential as it was seen as a very good money maker.

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In the end it was awarded to the South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway - a railway line linking the Stockton & Darlington Railway near Bishop Auckland with the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway at Tebay, via Barnard Castle, Stainmore Summit and Kirkby Stephen.

The ceremonial cutting of the first sod for the company was at Kirkby Stephen on 25 August 1857, and that for the EVR was at Appleby on 28 July 1858. Land for two tracks purchased, but a single track line was laid.

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In this video I follow the disused railway line from a small railway station called Varras over some magnificent viaducts to a major railway point in the Eden Valley, Kirkby Stephen.

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