This line is open. To the north it connected to the North British Railway and to the south to the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway and Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. The company was bought by the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway which itself merged with other companies to become the North Eastern Railway.
/ /1847 | York and Newcastle Railway
Newcastle and Berwick RailwayYork, Newcastle and Berwick Railway The York and Newcastle Railway and the Newcastle and Berwick Railway merge to become the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. |
/ /1847 | Newcastle and Berwick Railway Opened from Heaton (Newcastle and North Shields Railway) to Tweedmouth. |
/ /1848 | Newcastle and Berwick Railway Extended from Tweedmouth over the Royal Border Bridge to Berwick by the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. |
/ /1862 | Wansbeck Railway Line opened from Morpeth to Scot's Gap. The Blyth and Tyne Railway's Morpeth [BT] station was used. This terminus was approached by first crossing over the Newcastle and Berwick Railway and then joining the Morpeth Branch (Blyth and Tyne Railway) at an east facing junction, trains then reversed into the terminus. |
/ /1871 | Wansbeck RailwayNewcastle and Berwick Railway Curve (authorised in original Wansbeck Railway Act) put in to allow North British Railway trains to run into the main Morpeth station in either 1871 or 1872. The two companies built the curve towards each other, meeting in the middle. With this opening, the Wansbeck Railway trains stopped using the Morpeth Branch (Blyth and Tyne Railway)'s terminus. |
15/07/1967 | Newcastle and Berwick Railway Edinburgh Waverley to Leeds 'North Briton' derails at Acklington. The train was travelling at 75mph and derailed due to the track condition. No casualties. |
30/05/2008 | Newcastle and Berwick Railway High Level Bridge re-opens following a £43M refurbishment. |
/12/2010 | Newcastle and Berwick Railway Floodlighting on the Royal Border Bridge damaged by flooding. |
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This three track (carrying two tracks) viaduct is in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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This junction is directly east of Newcastle Central station. It is the junction between the old main line to the south and the main line north to Berwick-upon-Tweed and Edinburgh Waverley. The keep of Newcastle Castle is located in the 'V' of the junction.
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This magnificent through station is covered by three long curved trainsheds 60 ft wide designed by architect John Dobson with subsequent additional coverage. Dobson was responsible (with builder Richard Grainger) for the reconstruction and expansion of large areas of Newcastle in the 1830s and 40s. The station is on the East Coast Main Line and serves other lines such as those to ...
More detailsThis junction is directly east of Newcastle Central station. It is the junction between the old main line to the south and the main line north to Berwick-upon-Tweed and Edinburgh Waverley. The keep of Newcastle Castle is located in the 'V' of the junction.
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This two platform station was raised on an embankment to the south of a bridge over Weetslade Road. It had no goods yard and was located in the west of Dudley. Annitsford itself was to the east. The main station building was on the southbound platform.
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This station was to the north of the Weetslade Road bridge and served Dudley Colliery which was to the north and on the east side of the line, approached by reversing from the south onto a reversing spur. Buildings survived here after the station relocation and the signal box was here, on the west side of the line.
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This is a two platform station. The passenger station is on the north side of a road overbridge (Station Road) and the former goods yard was on the south south. The station was to the west of Cramlington itself, but this has expanded and now surrounds the station.
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This was a two platform station on the north side of a level crossing. The station and level crossing no longer exist.
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This was a two platform on the south side of a level crossing. The main station building was on the southbound (east) platform, the Netherton side of the railway. A smaller building was on the northbound platform.
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This is a two platform station on the East Coast Main Line about a third of a mile south of the old Morpeth town centre over the River Wansbeck. There is a fine Tudor style two storey station building, with platform canopy, on the southbound platform. The architect was Benjamin Green, architect for the Newcastle and Berwick Railway stations. On the south side of the building three ...
More detailsThis is a two platform station in the south of Pegswood and just west of the former Pegswood Colliery. Original buildings have not survived. There was no goods yard.
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This was a two platform station to the south of a level crossing. The main station building was on the northbound platform. Longhirst itself was around a mile to the west.
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This is a two platform station a mile and a half south west of Widdrington. It is located in the new village of Widdrington Station. There is a level crossing at the north end. The original station building remains on the southbound platform.
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This was a two platform station with staggered platforms on either side of a level crossing. The northbound platform was to the north and southbound to the south. The main station building was opposite the northbound and on the east side of the line.
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This is a two platform station. The main station building, on the northbound platform, is now a house. There is a car park on the west side. The station is immediately south east of Acklington itself.
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This was a two platform stations with staggered platforms and the main station building on the southbound platform, a little south of the northbound. The station was a mile west of the village which was over the River Coquet on its south bank.
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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 was a two platform station. The main building was on the southbound platform. The station was on the west side of Longhoughton itself. Longhoughton has expanded since closure of the station.
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This was a two platform station on the north side of a level crossing. The main station building was on the northbound platform was a waiting room on the southbound.
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This was a two platform station to the north of a level crossing. The main station building, stone built and of two storeys, was on the southbound platform.
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This is a two platform station on the East Coast Main Line. It is largely complete. The main station building, two storeys in stone, is on the northbound platform with a stone and timber waiting room on the southbound. To the south is a level crossing and a signal box at the south end of the northbound platform. Chathill is a small village on the west side of the station.
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This was a two platform station with staggered platforms. The southbound platform was north of a level crossing and northbound to the south.
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This was a two platform station to the north of a level crossing. The station building was on the northbound platform. The small village of Lucker itself was to the south.
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This was a two platform station on the north side of a level crossing. The fine two storey station building was on the northbound platform.
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This was a two platform station on the south side of a level crossing. The main station building was on the northbound platform and has not survived.
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This was a two platform station on the north side of a level crossing. The main building, a stone two storey building, was on the northbound platform. The goods siding was on the west side, north of level crossing.
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This was a two platform station on the north side of a level crossing. The main station building, a two storey stone building on the southbound platform, still stands. Scremerston itself is a mile to the west. The site is close to the east coast.
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This station on the East Coast Main Line was south of the Royal Border Bridge and at a junction with the line to Kelso. The location was a station, junction, locomotive shed, yard and start of a zig-zag line to dockside (Tweed Dock).
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This is a double track 28 arch viaduct which crosses the River Tweed between Berwick-Upon-Tweed and Tweedmouth. It is 2152 ft long.
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This box is west of the former Tweedmouth station in the 'V' of the former junction between the approach to the Royal Border Bridge and line north to Berwick-upon-Tweed and the former Kelso Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway).
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This is an island platform station. It is located at the north end of the Royal Border Bridge on the north bank of the Tweed.
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