This line is closed. The Alnwick station site remains in good condition, particularly known for its bookshop. Today the nearest public station is at Alnmouth.
The Aln Valley Railway Society plan to re-open the majority of the line and a new Alnwick terminus Alnwick (Lionheart) has been built on the east side of the A1 which severed the trackbed making it difficult to re-use the original terminus.
05/08/1850 | Alnwick Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) Line opened to freight. |
19/08/1850 | Alnwick Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) Line opened to passengers. |
/ /1963 | Alnwick Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) Not included in Beeching Report. |
/01/1968 | Alnwick Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) Closed to passengers. |
/10/1968 | Alnwick Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) Closed completely. |
/ /2012 | Alnwick Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) Alnwick (Lionheart) opened as the terminus of the proposed Aln Valley Railway. |
/ /2019 | Alnwick Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) First steam engine crosses over the Cawledge Viaduct. |
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This is a two platform station with the main station building, a modest modern structure, on the southbound platforms. There are car parks on either side of the line. There is a signal box at the north end of the southbound platform and sidings and a coal yard at the south end, east side of the line. The station is on the electrified East Coast Main Line.
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This is a double track seven arch stone viaduct on the line between Alnmouth and Alnwick which had been initially single track, then doubled (new track to north), and closed in 1968. The Aln Valley Railway now (2019) crosses the viaduct having extended east from its Alnwick (Lionheart) terminus. The viaduct carries a single track.
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This is the terminus of the Aln Valley Railway. The station opened in 2012. The station is the intended terminus of a re-opened Alnwick Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) which closed in 1968. The original site, Alnwick, will be difficult to access from Alnmouth due to the construction of the A1 on the level over the former line's trackbed.
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This substantial station closed in 1968. The station building remains standing and there are portions of platforms. It was the terminus of the line from Alnmouth and, from 1887, the line from Coldstream (the junction was south of the station.)
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