North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum) is a Grade II* listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1952. Commercial. 15 related planning applications.
North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum)
- WRENN ID
- burning-pewter-birch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1952
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum), DL3 6ST
- OS grid reference
- NZ 289 157
- Coordinates
- 54.53587, -1.55473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Road Railway Station, now a railway museum, was opened in 1842 to replace the earlier passenger station from 1833, built by John Harris for the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Side wings were added in the 1850s.
The main building features a long front with two storeys and a six-window centre, which includes a loggia supported by seven cast iron columns and a bracketed timber cornice. The side wings are single-storey, varying in length with irregular window arrangements. The walls are currently roughcast, and the roofs are slated with eaves soffits. The central block has chimney stacks made of conjoined hexagonal ashlar shafts at both ends, while the wings have similar paired or single shafts. At the rear, there is a plain, timber-roofed train shed with two unequal spans supported by a row of cast iron columns. There are also short flanking sheds with cast iron supports for lean-to roofs against the front building. This station is a good example of an early, straightforward railway station and is now utilized as a railway museum.
The station is listed for its historical significance related to the Stockton & Darlington Railway, which opened in 1825 and played a crucial role in the development of railways both nationally and internationally.
Local climate
North Road Railway Station (Now Railway Museum) receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 15 applications
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