Fighting Cocks railway station
Fighting Cocks | |||||
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An engraving of Fighting Cocks station, from "The Railway Jubilee at Darlington" in Illustrated London News: 340, 2 October 1875 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Middleton St George, Darlington England | ||||
| Coordinates | 54°31′18″N 1°28′21″W / 54.5218°N 1.4724°W | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Disused | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Stockton & Darlington Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | |||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 10 October 1825 | First regular passenger train over Stockton & Darlington Railway; first unofficial use of the station | ||||
| c. 1830 | Official station opened as Middleton and Dinsdale | ||||
| 1866 | Renamed Fighting Cocks | ||||
| 1 July 1887 | Station closed to passengers | ||||
| 1964 | Station closed completely | ||||
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Fighting Cocks railway station was a railway station on the original route of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR), which served the villages of Middleton St George and Low Dinsdale in County Durham, as well as the once popular Dinsdale Spa Hotel from 1829.