BRITAIN’S GHOST STATION
DESERTED BY TRAINS. Britain’s most historic railway station has been “discovered,” still intact, on Tyneside. a More than 100 years of development have passed over Felling-on-Tyne station. The trains have deserted it, owing to a diversion of the line, but the original buildings still stand, dreaming of the day when enginedrivers wore top-hats and the admiring populace cheered a "Puffing Billy” on sight. Felling-on-Tyne was on the old Branding Junction railway and its station is perhaps the only one in the world more than a century old that remains in its original state. It is the first discovery of a committee of the London North Eastern Railway officials that has begun a tour of Durham, Northumberland and Yorkshire, with a view to finding and preserving old buildings and places that will illustrate railway development and throw light on old methods.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1938, Page 8
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143BRITAIN’S GHOST STATION Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1938, Page 8
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