Ryhope East was one of two railway stations to have served the village of

Ryhope Ryhope ( ) is a coastal village along the southern boundary of the City of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, North East England. With a population of approximately 14,000, measured at 10.484 in the 2011 census, Ryhope is 2.9 miles to the centre of S ...

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. Opened in 1858 as a stop on the short Londonderry, Seaham and Sunderland Railway, it became a minor stop on the

Durham Coast Line The Durham Coast Line is an approximately railway line running between Newcastle and in North East England. Heavy rail passenger services, predominantly operated Northern Trains, and some freight services operate over the whole length of the li ...

following that line's incorporation into it in 1905.

History

In 1854 the Londonderry Railway opened the Londonderry, Seaham and Sunderland Railway to link its network of colliery railways to the newly constructed South Dock in

Sunderland Sunderland () is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England. It is the City of Sunderland's administrative centre and in the Historic counties of England, historic county of County of Durham, Durham. The city is from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and is on t ...

due to the lack of capacity in

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. Though constructed primarily for mineral traffic, passengers were also carried between and

Hendon Burn Hendon Burn is a stream flowing through Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. serving as a drainage basin for most of the city's southern half, its route proceeds from Doxford Park through the Farringdon Country Park area and into Gilley Law, Silkswort ...

in Sunderland from 1855, where the LS&SR opened an additional station to serve Ryhope on 2 July. The station was originally named ''Ryhope'' and was designed by Brewer, Estate Clarke of Works of the

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at the time, who was responsible for its architecture being distinct from that of others North Eastern Railway stations in the vicinity North Eastern Railway. From 1868 the LS&SR began to use the

Hendon Hendon is an urban area in the Borough of Barnet, North-West London northwest of Charing Cross. Hendon was an ancient manor and parish in the county of Middlesex and a former borough, the Municipal Borough of Hendon; it has been part of Great ...

terminus of the NER's Durham to Sunderland Line until the NER replaced this in turn with Sunderland Central station in 1879. Although the LS&SR shared the NER's Sunderland terminus, it was not until 1900 that the Londonderry Railway agreed to sell its Seaham to Sunderland route to the NER and, following this acquisition, the line was extended along the coast to

West Hartlepool West Hartlepool was a predecessor of Hartlepool, County Durham, England. It developed in the Victorian era and took the name from its western position in the parish of what is now known as the Headland. The former town was originally formed in ...

in 1905. To distinguish the station from the NER's other Ryhope station on the Durham to Sunderland Line, the station was renamed ''Ryhope East'' in 1904.M E Quick, ''Railway Passenger Stations in England Scotland and Wales—A Chronology'', The Railway and Canal Historical Society, 2002, p. 350 The station closed to passengers on 7 March 1960, but remained open to goods traffic until 1964.

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