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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Morgan Ofori

Appeal to save ‘world’s oldest’ railway station in County Durham

People stand in front of historic brick building behind railway tracks
Campaigners want to bring Heighington station back into community use. Photograph: Sarah Caldecott/Friends of the Stockton and Darlington railway.

Goods and passengers passed through it in the early days of steam travel. Now an urgent appeal has been launched to resurrect what is believed to be the world’s oldest railway station.

The derelict Heighington stop in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, dates back to the early 19th century when it was an important location on the Stockton and Darlington Railway, built by the engineer George Stephenson.

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