Border Counties Bridge

Border Counties Bridge
Border Counties Bridge
Coordinates	54°58′56″N 2°07′15″W / 54.9821°N 2.1207°W / 54.9821; -2.1207
OS grid reference	NY923652
Carries	Formerly, Border Counties Railway
Crosses	River Tyne
Locale	Northumberland
Owner	British Railways at the time of demolition in 1959
Preceded by	Hexham Bridge
Followed by	Constantius Bridge
Characteristics
Design	Beam bridge[1]
Material	Wrought Iron[1]
Pier construction	Cast Iron and Masonry/Concrete[1]
No. of spans	5
Piers in water	4[1]
Rail characteristics
No. of tracks	Formerly, 1
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
History
Construction end	1856[1]
Opened	1856 (1856)
Closed	1 September 1958 (1958-09-01)
Location

Border Counties Railway
Overview
Status	Closed
Locale	Roxburghshire, Scotland Northumberland, England
Service
Type	Heavy rail
History
Commenced	11 December 1855
Opened	2 April 1858 (1858-04-02)
Completed	24 June 1862
Merged into	North British Railway - 1860
Merged into	London North Eastern Railway - 1923
Merged into	British Railways - 1948
Closed	1 September 1958 (1958-09-01) (except Reedsmouth–Bellingham, closed 11 November  1963)
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Route map Legend Waverley Route to Edinburgh Riccarton Junction Waverley Route to Carlisle Saughtree Scotland England Deadwater Kielder Lewiefield Halt Plashetts Plashetts Colliery Waggonway portion of line flooded by Kielder Water Falstone Thorneyburn Tarset Charlton Bellingham Wansbeck Railway to Morpeth Reedsmouth Countess Park (1859–1861) Wark Barrasford Chollerton Chollerford (later Humshaugh) Wall Newcastle & Carlisle Railway to Carlisle Border Counties Bridge Border Counties Junction Hexham Newcastle & Carlisle Railway to Newcastle

Border Counties Bridge was a 19th-century railway bridge across the River Tyne just west of Hexham, Northumberland, England. The bridge used to carry the Border Counties Railway over the River Tyne at Border Counties Junction with the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway.