Redesmouth is a village in

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, England, just over to the south-east of Bellingham.

Governance

Redesmouth is in the

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constituency of

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Transport

Redesmouth (old spelling: Reedsmouth) was served by Reedsmouth railway station on the Border Counties Railway which linked the

Newcastle and Carlisle Railway The Newcastle & Carlisle Railway (N&CR) was an English railway company formed in 1825 that built a line from Newcastle upon Tyne on Britain's east coast, to Carlisle, on the west coast. The railway began operating mineral trains in 1834 between ...

, near

, with the Border Union Railway at Riccarton Junction. The first section of the route was opened between

and Chollerford in 1858, the remainder opening in 1862. The line was closed to passengers by

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in 1956. Part of the line is now beneath the surface of

Kielder Water Kielder Water is a large man-made reservoir in Northumberland in North East England. It is the largest artificial lake in the United Kingdom by capacity of water and it is surrounded by Kielder Forest, one of the biggest man-made woodlands in E ...

. Redesmouth was a junction with the Wansbeck Railway, which ran east to

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. The yard at Redesmouth remained open after the closure of the Border Counties line to freight as the Wansbeck route was used to run from Redesmouth to Bellingham. To the north side of the route to Riccarton there was a locomotive shed used to stable historic locomotives during the war to save them from bombing raids. There were two platforms on the Riccarton route and one platform on the Wansbeck route. The substantial station building still stands and both it and the signal box are now private houses. The station building was unusual as, originally, it had
60,000 gallon water tank
on top of it, where the pitched roof is now.

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Villages in Northumberland Bellingham, Northumberland {{Northumberland-geo-stub