Editing Barnard Castle (section)

==Transport==
[[File:Bridge at Barnard Castle - by Francis Hannaway.jpg|thumb|Barnard Castle Bridge over the [[River Tees]]]]
Barnard Castle has road connections to [[Bishop Auckland]], [[Spennymoor]] and central County Durham via the [[A688 road|A688]] and [[Darlington]], [[Stockton-on-Tees]], and [[Middlesbrough]] by the [[A67 road|A67]]. Barnard Castle is also {{convert|4|mi|km|spell=in}} from the [[A66 road|A66]], with access to the [[M6 motorway|M6]] to the west and the [[A1(M)]] to the east. The B6278 also connects Barnard Castle with [[Middleton-in-Teesdale]]. The old road bridge over the River Tees was built in 1569 and is Grade I [[Listed building|listed]].<ref>{{NHLE|grade=I|desc=Barnard Castle bridge (that part in Barnard Castle civil parish) and attached wall to south-east|num=1201056|date=24 February 1950}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE|grade=I|desc=Barnard Castle bridge|num=1121647|date=12 January 1967}}</ref>

[[Barnard Castle railway station]] was closed for passenger trains in 1964. A Bill was approved in 1854 for a line from a junction with the [[Stockton & Darlington Railway]] at Darlington to Barnard Castle and opened on 9 July 1856, with intermediate stations at Broomielaw, Winston, Gainford and [[Piercebridge railway station|Piercebridge]]. The terminus at Darlington only lasted five years.  In 1856 the [[South Durham & Lancashire Railway]] proposed a line from Bishop Auckland to Tebay via Barnard Castle and Kirkby Stephen but only the western section was built with the Company receiving its Bill in 1857.

The line opened on 8 August 1861 from a second terminus at Barnard Castle to a junction with the [[Lancaster & Carlisle Railway]] at Tebay with intermediate stations at Lartington, Bowes, Barras, Kirkby Stephen, Ravenstondale & Gaisgill.  The two stations at Barnard Castle were some distance apart; the earliest station became a through station and closed to passengers on 1 May 1862, but remained in use as a goods depot.  The second station was closed for passenger trains under the [[Beeching cuts]] in 1964 and completely on 5 April 1965 and the site was eventually built on by [[GlaxoSmithKline]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Disused Stations – Barnard Castle |url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/barnard_castle/index0.shtml |access-date=8 September 2015 |publisher=Disused Railway Stations |archive-date=29 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150829043053/http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/barnard_castle/index0.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>  Today rail access is via  {{stnlnk|Bishop Auckland}}, or {{stnlnk|Darlington}}. There are two bus routes provided by [[Arriva North East]] which connect Barnard Castle to Darlington, the X75 (Via [[Staindrop]]) and X76 (Via [[Winston, County Durham|Winston]]) and there is also the 79, provided by Hodgsons Coaches, which travels from Barnard Castle to [[Richmond, North Yorkshire|Richmond]].