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The station was once part of the Eryholme-Richmond branch line, built by the York and Newcastle Railway in 1846. Like most of the infrastructure of the line, Catterick Bridge station was built in the Tudor Style. On 4 February 1944, an ammunition train exploded in the station whist it was being loaded by four Army Privates. In all twelve people ...
The last fare-paying passenger train to run on the branch from Catterick Camp Centre railway station was on 26 October 1964, though a connection to the base could still be made at Catterick Bridge station on the main branchline. [32] [33] The last train to run from Catterick Camp Centre railway station was on 8 December 1969. [34]
The Catterick Bridge Explosion occurred on 4 February 1944 in the railway sidings at Catterick Bridge station, on the Richmond Branch Line/Catterick Camp Railway in North Yorkshire, England. It killed twelve people and injured more than a hundred.
The start of the First World War saw the hasty construction of a sub branch line to Catterick Camp (now Catterick Garrison) which opened in 1915. The sub branch separated near Brompton-on-Swale crossing the River Swale via Catterick Bridge, then from 1922 was diverted onto the new Catterick Railway Bridge, which still stands. The branch then ...
Catterick Bridge is a hamlet about 1-mile (1.6 km) north of Catterick, at the south end of Catterick road bridge. The hamlet includes Catterick Racecourse and a few houses. The Sunday market, held at the racecourse, was once the largest of its kind in Northern England. [1] After declining fortunes, the market closed in 2016. [2] [3]
Catterick Camp railway station was a terminus station on the Eryholme-Richmond branch line until its closure in 1964; the closest mainline railway stations are now at Northallerton and Darlington; they are equidistant, at 15.9 miles (25.6 km) south-east and north-east respectively.
Catterick (/ ˈ k æ t ər ɪ k /) is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire , it is 8.5 miles (13.7 km) north-west of the county town of Northallerton just to the west of the River Swale .
Catterick Bridge, a hamlet and bridge in North Yorkshire; Catterick Bridge railway station, formerly in Brompton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire; Catterick Garrison, British Army garrison near Catterick village in North Yorkshire RAF Catterick, former Royal Air Force base in North Yorkshire; Catterick, Western Australia, a locality in Western Australia