Lartington railway station was situated on the

South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway The South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway (SD&LUR) built a railway line linking the Stockton & Darlington Railway near Bishop Auckland with the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (the West Coast Main Line) at Tebay, via Barnard Castle, Stainmore S ...

between

Barnard Castle Barnard Castle (, ) is a market town on the north bank of the River Tees, in County Durham, Northern England. The town is named after and built around a medieval castle ruin. The town's Bowes Museum's has an 18th-century Silver Swan automato ...

and Kirkby Stephen East. It served the village of

Lartington Lartington is a village and civil parish about west of the town of Barnard Castle, in Teesdale, in the Pennines of England. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 135. Lartington is Historic counties of ...

. The station opened to passenger traffic on 26 March 1861, and closed on 22 January 1962. The station and related buildings remain intact as a private dwelling. In 1910, Lartington station was the site of an accident in which 7 people were injured.

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