Plashetts
| Plashetts | |
| Northumberland | |
|---|---|
 Looking across Plashetts | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY665915 |
| Location: | 55°13’1"N, 2°31’41"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Hexham |
| Postcode: | NE48 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Northumberland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Hexham |
Plashetts was a small village in Northumberland. Its parish is extant, and to be found south-east of Kielder, Northumberland (and about twenty-two miles north-west of Hexham) but the original village is now beneath the surface of Kielder Water.
History
In the 1850s, the Duke of Northumberland opened a coal mine here. The mine was closed in 1964 by the National Coal Board. Employment was highest in 1914 when 126 men and boys were employed.[1]
Plashetts was served by Plashetts railway station on the Border Counties Railway which linked the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, near Hexham, with the Border Union Railway at Riccarton Junction. The first section of the route was opened between Hexham and Chollerford in 1858. The line was closed to passengers by British Railways in 1956. Part of the line is now beneath the surface of Kielder Water.
The station had a single platform and very tall signal box. This was a fairly substantial station having a waggonway branch, which ran from here up Slater's incline, to the Plashetts and Far Colliery. To the north of the station were one or two houses and at the end of the waggonway a miners village. The bottom of the incline is now a pier used by the ferryboat service on the lake.[2]
Outside links
References
- ↑ "Durham Mining Museum". http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/p005.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-09.
- ↑ "Border Counties Railway at Railscot". http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Border_Counties_Railway/frame.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-09.