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Fighting Cocks railway station was a railway station on the original course of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) which served the villages of Middleton St George and Low Dinsdale in Darlington, part of the Ceremonial County of Durham, as well the once popular Dinsdale Spa Hotel from 1829.

History

When the Stockton & Darlington Railway first opened on 10 October 1825, there were no official stations as passenger trains were provided by independent coach operators who purchased a licence to the railway company to enable them to operate on the line.^[1] Tickets were therefore sold by local publicans and so it has been claimed that the Fighting Cocks public house, a coaching inn located adjacent to where the railway crossed Rykeneild Street, could be the oldest station booking office in the World.^[2] It was not until the success of passenger services on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway persuaded^[3] the S&DR to purchase the coach operators and in December 1833 it began to operate its own locomotive-hauled passenger service.^[1]

In 1829, the Dinsdale Spa Hotel was opened close to the village of Low Dinsdale which led to an increase in travel to the village using the railway. As a result, a permanent station was opened during the 1830s (appearing in timetables by 1838), on the east side of the level crossing, to cater for this traffic. It was originally called 'Middleton and Dinsdale' but was renamed 'Fighting Cocks' in 1866.^[2]

In 1863 the S&DR was amalgamated into the North Eastern Railway (NER)^[4] who, on 1 July 1887 opened a new line from south of Darlington Bank Top station to Oak Tree Junction, east of Fighting Cocks station,^[5] to enable passenger services on the ex-S&DR route to serve Bank Top station.^[3] However the opening of this new route meant that Fighting Cocks was bypassed and so a new station was provided at {{rws|Dinsdale}} to replace it. Over the course of its life as a passenger station, approximately 30,000 passenger tickets were sold to Fighting Cocks. From this point on Fighting Cocks was only served by goods trains until it was closed completely as an economy measure in 1964.^[2]

The line through the station remained as a through line until it was severed as the western end on 21 May 1967^[3] though it was partially retained as a short branch line from Oak Tree Junction until the 1970s.^[2]

A public footpath now runs along the alignment of the railway through the sight of the station.^[6]

References

1. ^¹{{Cite book|title=The North Eastern Railway: Its Rise and Development|last=Tomlinson|first=William Weaver|publisher=Andrew Reid & Co Ltd|year=1914|isbn=9781296562458|location=Newcastle-upon-Tyne|pages=122–127 & 384–385}}
2. ^¹²³{{Cite web|url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/11809783.Making_an_unremarkable_wall_truly_remarkable/|title=Making an unremarkable wall truly remarkable {{!}} The Northern Echo|last=|first=|date=|website=The Northern Echo|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=19 December 2017}}
3. ^¹²{{Cite book|title=Forgotten Railways: North-East England|last=Hoole|first=K.|publisher=David & Charles Limited|year=1973|isbn=0715358944|location=Newton Abbot|pages=142 &151–152}}
4. ^{{Cite book|title=Teesside Railways A View From The Past|last=HiIl|first=Norman|publisher=Ian Allan Publishing Ltd|year=2001|isbn=0711028036|location=Hersham|pages=42}}
5. ^{{Cite book|title=PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 2|last=Body|first=Geoffrey|publisher=Patrick Stephens Limited|year=1989|isbn=1852600721|location=Wellingborough|pages=56}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.sdr1825.co.uk/Downloads/SDR%20Booklet%206%20Darlington%20to%20Goosepool%20via%20Fighting%20Cocks%202016-08-03.pdf|title=SDR Booklet 6 Darlington to Goosepool via Fighting Cocks 2016-08-03.pdf|last=|first=|date=|website=Friends of the Stockton and Darlington Railway|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=29 December 2017}}

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