The only information we have associated with this photograph is the caption S & D House. We think it may be in Yarm. Any thoughts?
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Many thanks to all those who have told us where this is…….Steve
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The station was at the back of the Cleveland Bay pub which was called the the Railway Inn at the time of the Stockton and Darlington railway opening in 1825, the original shallow platform was removed in the early days of the Stockton and Darlington railway and was used and removed to the Original Heighington railway station (still can be seen) on the Darlington to Bishop Auckland line.
If you go into the Cleveland Bay for a pint and follow the corridor to the toilets there is a map on the wall showing the railway lines in position, up until a recent house being built behind the original cottage next to Allens West station you could still see the line of the railway as it came away from the top of the Darlington bound platform down to where the road is now going into Yarm, the line of the railway I would imagine would take the course that the road now takes with railway line terminating at the Back of the Cleveland Bay.
There must be some photographs somewhere in the mid to late 1800s showing the line still in place, if anyone knows of any I would be very grateful to see them.
I used to live round the corner in The Crescent and went inside a couple of times when I was a kid. It’s a smashing little house. The windows upstairs are indeed blanked out to avoid window tax. It was part of a branch line of the Stockton and Darlington railway. There was a coal yard, just underneath The Rookery on the old Parklands garage site behind the Cleveland Bay. This has now been built on but the developer did leave some of the old arches.
I pass it every day to and from work [eggy school] we’ve allways known it as walkers corner.
It’s locate on the junction of South View & Urlay Nook Rd (A67) – I believe it had something to do with the Stockton to Darlington railway many many years ago.
Just to the left of the first upper window there is a ceramic plaque, you can just about make it out in this photo. You can see it clearly via Google Earth’s Streetview. The plaque bears the letter D and below it the number 13. Is this a mileage mark indicating that it is 13 miles from Darlington?
Top of Yarm bank on way out to Eaglescliffe..
It’s the top of the bank out of Yarm
This building is where the Yarm branch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway terminated, it is on the corner of Urlay Nook Road and South View in Yarm. The branch diverged from the S&D main line at Allens West and provided a horse-drawn passenger service from 1825 until steam locomotives were introduced in 1833. The branch continued for coal traffic until 1870 when more modern coal wagons replaced the original chauldron wagons and the cost of converting the Depot was considered excessive.
I believe it’s just behind the Cleveland Bay, Yarm on the Egglescliffe/Darlington/Airport road!
According to http://www.hidden-teesside.co.uk/category/stockton/page/3/ the building is an original part of the Stockton to Darlington Railway. It was an agents house and coal depot.
It’s in Eaglescliffe, at the end of South View on Urlay Nook Road, you can see the rookery in the background
It looks like the kind of architecture used by railways. Maybe S & D refers to something related to that.
Corner of South View and Urlay Nook Road in Eaglescliffe – passed everyday on the way to school
Definitely in Yarm, just behind the Cleveland Bay – the building was part of the original S&D station at Yarm which was at the end of a branch off the main S&D route. Just visible in the photograph on the top left of the front wall is an S&D numbered building badge & also of interest are the four upstairs windows facing the road – they are false windows painted onto the brickwork.
I think this house was originally a signal box, as I’m sure there was a railway level crossing there at one time. The building is now a private house and stands on the left side of the road, could be Urlay Nook Road or Durham Lane? leading toward Yarm from the Egglescliffe School area. Part of the garden of the house covers a railway tunnel,which I think is still in use.
This building is in Eaglescliffe and stands on the corner of South View and Urlay Nook Road . I believe it was the home of the railway agent ?
The top row of small windows are actually false and have been painted into place to look like windows , perhaps as a result of the Window Tax ?
Its on Urlay Nook road just outside Yarm, still standing. I’ve always thought it may have had something to do with the railways, can one of our more learned contributors put me right about this.
It’s at the junction of the Urlay nook road A67 as your leaving Yarm, its still exactly the same today
I’d be surprised if it was Yarm – the lhs seems to show a large signal gantry that might put it as being somewhere along the Stockton to Darlington railway line. Perhaps across ‘the Wilderness’? Or the Bowesfield Lane junction that used to be?
Regards
John Precious