sentences:  Kirkby Stephen became a junction station when the EVR opened to mineral traffic on 8 April 1862 and passengers began to be carried on 9 June 1862.The line between West Auckland and Barnard Castle opened for minerals in July 1863 and passengers on 1 August 1863.In 1859 a company had been formed to link the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway with the S&DR via the Derwent Valley; by 1860 this had grown into the Newcastle, Derwent & Weardale Railway, which now bypassed the S&DR and linked with the SD&LUR, and the North British and London & North Western (LNWR) railways were providing two thirds of the capital.