02/05/1887 | Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway) Coldstream to Wooperton opened to goods traffic. |
05/09/1887 | Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway) The Cornhill Branch (Coldstream to Alnwick) is opened throughout and for passengers with the opening of Wooperton to Alnwick. For the extra traffic Alnwick station re-built. |
/09/1930 | Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway) Closed to passengers. |
11/08/1948 | Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway) Flooding damage washes away a bridge between Wooler and Idlerton. The bridge is not replaced and the line operated as two branches; Coldstream to Wooler and Alnwick to Idlerton. |
02/03/1953 | Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway) Idlerton to Alnwick (excluded) closed completely. |
29/03/1964 | Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway) Scottish Rambler No 3 runs from Coldstream to Wooler. |
25/03/1965 | Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway) Wooler to Coldstream (excluded) closed completely, the last part of the line. |
These locations are along the line.
This station was originally named Cornhill for the nearby Cornhill Castle. It was located in England but served Coldstream, a mile and a half north west over the River Tweed, in Scotland.
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More detailsThis was a single platform station with a loop, large two storey stone build station building (typical of the line and with a timber extension on the platform side) and large goods yard.
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This was a level crossing with a signal box on the north side of line, west of the crossing.
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Kilham level crossing and sidings.
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A single platform station with the platform on a passing loop. The platform was on the south (Kirknewton) side of the station with a goods yard at the west end of the station, approached from the east via the west end of the loop line.
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More detailsThis was a single platform station with a passing loop. A goods yard was served from a reversing spur which ran east from the east end of the platform line. The platform line was the loop, the other line being a straight through.
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More detailsThis was a two platform station in the east of Wooler. The two storey station building, typical of the line, was on the northbound platform, that closest to the town. This had a large timber extension porch on the platform side.
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This was a single platform station with a loop. The platform was on the north side of the loop, the southern track being a goods bypass. The station building was of two storeys, typical of the line. This had a long glazed porch on the platform side.
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This was a single platform station with a passing loop. The platform was on the west side with a two storey station building typical of the line and with a timber porch - extended at one end by a signal box (replacing an earlier box on the east side of the line opposite the south end of the platform).
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This was a single platform station with a loop. The platform was on the west side on the loop line. The building was a two storey stone building, typical of the line. There was a signal box opposite the north end of the passenger platform, similar to that at Norham.
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This was a single platform station with a passing loop. The platform line was the slow line, on the west side. Glanton itself, a village, is off to the west. The two storey station building was typical of the line.
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This former island platform is a remarkably complete large site. The station building, a single storey, had canopies. On the west side was a large goods shed. To the east a row of railway cottages. The line was crossed by a girder bridge to the south. The building and the use of an island platform was not typical of the line.
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This was a single platform station with a passing loop. The passenger platform was on the south side with a two storey stone building typical of the line. The signal box was on the opposite (north) side of the line.
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More detailsThis 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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