Passengers: North Eastern Railway
Goods: British Rail (North Eastern Region)

The platform is probably stiill there but buried under tarmac and vegetation. The goods shed has been extended and is now used as a retail premises called Savvy Row selling second hand classic clothing. Althoough the building has been extended some railway features remain.

Notes: The Clarence Railway came into being principally to carry coal from inland County Durham to Stockton for export. Although it had more ambitious intentions it developed into a limited network linking Stockton with Chilton, Byers Green, Sim Pasture and Coxhoe, and it also extended further east to Port Clarence. It failed to reach inland as far as the productive coalfield, so any coal that it carried also had to pass over the rival Stockton & Darlington Railway. A passenger service was introduced from Stockton-on-Tees to the Clarence Tavern at Crow Trees (also referred to as Quarrington), a short distance north of Coxhoe, on 11 July 1835. The horse-drawn service ceased in November 1837 and was reinstated on 20 June 1838, but with Coxhoe as its northern terminus. The trains were steam-hauled as far north as Ferryhill, but for some months the three-mile section to Coxhoe was horse-drawn.

Coxhoe station had a low platform on the north-west side of the track and a small brick building with a hipped roof. The adjoining building (now a children's nursery) was, in those days, the Blue Bell Inn which also served as the booking office for passengers by rail or road coach, parcels office, and post office. A postman travelled on a pony from Durham City with the letters, and the farmers round about met at the inn for a chat over a pint or two when calling for letters

The May 1849 timetable shows two weekday trains from Coxhoe, departing at 8.40 am and 4.40 pm calling at Ferryhill and Sedgefield en route to Stockton. In the reverse direction trains arrived from Stockton at 8.30 am and 4.35 pm. A Saturday-only market train is shown leaving Coxhoe at 8.45 (instead of the 08.40?) and arriving at 3.30 pm. Over the following quarter-century Ferryhill became a junction of some importance on the East Coast main line, which continued north to Newcastle via Leamside until the present route via Durham was opened in 1872. By that time a further station – Coxhoe Bridge - had opened on the Ferryhill to Hartlepool line to serve the village, but the Coxhoe branch retained its paltry service of passenger trains. In the summer 1896 timetable, two trains still ran each way on weekdays, as seen below; they were hauled by 0-6-0WT No.24.

Although the passenger service was discontinued from 1 April 1902, goods were dealt with at the station until 3 October 1966. The platform, its stone back wall and the building still stood in 1959, but by 1971 the building had gone. The branch through Coxhoe was retained to serve Coxhoe Quarry, but it was ‘taken out of use’ on 9 June 1984, trains having ceased some time earlier when the quarry closed. Today the railway approach from the south to the station is discernible as a narrow belt of vegetation, but the station site itself, close to the main road, appears to have been erased. The goods shed is used as a retail outlet for second hand classic British clothes.

Ticket from Michael Stewart, Bradshaw from Chris Totty & NER timetable from Alan Young, Route map drawn by Alan Young.