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Castle Eden Railway, the Glossary

The Castle Eden Railway was a railway line built by the North Eastern Railway between Bowesfield Junction near Stockton-on-Tees and Wingate, County Durham, Northeast England.^[1]

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Closed railway lines in North East England
Railway lines closed in 1968
Railway lines opened in 1877

Act of parliament

An act of parliament, as a form of primary legislation, is a text of law passed by the legislative body of a jurisdiction (often a parliament or council).

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The Beeching cuts, also colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, were a major series of route closures and service changes made as part of the restructuring of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain in the 1960s.

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British Rail Class EF1

The Class EF1 (Electric Freight 1) was a class of electrically powered locomotives built by the North Eastern Railway from 1914.

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Castle Eden

Castle Eden is a village in County Durham, in England.

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Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.

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Clarence Railway

The Clarence Railway was an early railway company that operated in north-east England between 1833 and 1853. Castle Eden Railway and Clarence Railway are north Eastern Railway (UK).

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Cleveland County Council

Cleveland County Council was the county council of the non-metropolitan county of Cleveland in north east England.

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Cleveland Ironstone Formation

The Cleveland Ironstone Formation is a sequence of marine ironstone seams interbedded with shale and siltstone units which collectively form a part of the Lower Jurassic System of rocks underlying Cleveland in North Yorkshire.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.

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Countryside Commission

The Countryside Commission (formally the Countryside Commission for England and Wales, then the Countryside Commission for England) was a statutory body in England and Wales, and later in England only.

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County Durham

County Durham, officially simply Durham (/ˈdʌrəm/), is a ceremonial county in North East England.

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Durham Coast Line

The Durham Coast Line is an approximately railway line running between Newcastle and in North East England.

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Leeds Northern Railway

The Leeds Northern Railway (LNR), originally the Leeds and Thirsk Railway, was an English railway company that built and opened a line from Leeds to Stockton via Harrogate and Thirsk. Castle Eden Railway and Leeds Northern Railway are north Eastern Railway (UK).

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of environmental ministries

An environmental ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for the environment and/or natural resources.

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London and North Eastern Railway

The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain.

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Middlehaven

Middlehaven is the oldest part of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England.

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North East England

North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes.

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North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom)

The North Eastern Railway (NER) was an English railway company. Castle Eden Railway and North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom) are north Eastern Railway (UK).

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is an electrical cable that is used to transmit electrical energy to electric locomotives, electric multiple units, trolleybuses or trams.

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Railway electrification

Railway electrification is the use of electric power for the propulsion of rail transport.

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Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in County Durham, England, with a population of 84,815 at the 2021 UK census.

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Tees Marshalling Yard

Tees Marshalling Yard is a railway marshalling yard, used to separate railway wagons, located near Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire, Northern England.

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