This line is open with a short portions in Carlisle and another in Gateshead closed. The line provides a coast to coast long distance crossing of Britain and serves the western suburbs of Newcastle. It follows the course of the Tyne, crosses the watershed and then course of the Eden.
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This was the original terminus of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway in Newcastle opened on the 21st of May 1839, the east end of an extension built from Blaydon over the River Tyne via the Scotswood Viaduct and along the north bank. It immediately replaced Redheugh as the terminus for Newcastle and was on the western edge of Newcastle in undeveloped land high above the Tyne, three ...
More detailsThis was an island platform station west of Newcastle. It served the Elswick Works, situated between the railway and the River Tyne to the south, and the west end of Elswick, largely a housing development for the works.
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This station is closed. It grew to be a large four platform junction station with two platforms on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway's 1839 approach to Newcastle from Blaydon (Scotswood first appears in timetables around 1848) and two further platforms opened to the north on the Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway in 1875.
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This is a disused double track girder viaduct over the River Tyne in the west of Newcastle. It was an important part of the line from Newcastle Central to Carlisle.
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This was the eastern terminus of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway in Gateshead, on the south bank of the River Tyne by a quayside. The line was extended from Blaydon to Redheugh in 1837 and reached Newcastle via Scotswood in 1839, after which the Redheugh line was the branch.
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Blaydon is a two platform station with a small car park, just a lane, to the south.
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This was a two platform station serving Ryton, just a little to the south. The station was on the south bank of the River Tyne. There were building on each platform, station house on the eastbound. There were no goods facilities.
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This is a two platform station with staggered platforms on either side of a level crossing. The station has an old station building, fine gantry signal box over the line to the west of the level crossing and NER footbridge over the line to the east of the crossing. The eastbound platform is to the west of the crossing and westbound to the east. The station building, partly of two storeys and in ...
More detailsThis is a two platform station. There is a car park to the south and level crossing to the west. The station buildings have not survived but the NER footbridge is at the west end of the platforms. The signal box is on the north side of the line, west of the crossing. A railway house to the north of the station survives.
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This is a two platform station with a fine NER footbridge. There is a car park to the south.
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This is a two platform station at Riding Mill, just to the east of Riding. The two storey stone built station building on the westbound platform is now a house and coffee shop The Station Coffee House Riding Mill . An attractive footbridge crosses between the platforms.
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This is a two platform station. The platforms pass under the Tinkler's Bank road bridge. The station building, stone and of two storeys, is on the eastbound platform on the east side of the road bridge. The building is fitted with a platform canopy. The station opened in 1835, a year after this portion of the line.
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This is a level crossing with the B6321 half a mile west of Corbridge. A crossing keepers cottage remains here on the south side of the line and west of the road. ...
More detailsThis is a two platform station on the line between Newcastle and Carlisle. It is probably the most important intermediary station. The station is a little to the north of Hexham's town centre.
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This was the junction between the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway (opened here in 1836), the Border Counties Railway (opened here in 1858) and the Hexham and Allendale Railway (opened here in 1867. All three of these lines were opened in portions.
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This was a two platform station to the south east of the village of Fourstones. The main station building was on the eastbound platform with awaiting room on the westbound.
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This is a two platform station. There is a car park on the south side. To the west is a level crossing and a signal box, on the north side of the line and east of the crossing.
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This is a two platform station. The eastbound platform is stone and the westbound is timber, it being relocated east from its original location - platforms were originally staggered. The site of the westbound was a siding.
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These sidings were a loading location for the opencast mine at Plenmeller, to the south. A conveyor system, around a mile and a half long, crossed the River South Tyne and passed through a tunnel to reach the opencast site on Plenmeller Common.
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This is a two platform station in West End, to the west of the village of Haltwhistle's centre. The station is in excellent condition. There is a stone built building on the eastbound platform, timber on the westbound, elevated and disused signal box is at the east end of the westbound platform alongside the footbridge. A very large water tank survives in the former goods yard to the north west of ...
More detailsThis was a two platform station on the west bank of the Tipalt Burn. Greenhead has a north-south alignment as the generally east-west route of the line between Newcastle and Carlisle crosses from the Tyne watershed to the Eden watershed here. The westbound platform was on the west side.
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This was a two platform station. From Gildland the line west to Carlisle follows the south bank of the River Irthing. To the east towards Newcastle it turns away from the Irthing, first east and then south to cross high ground to reach the west bank of the Tipalt Burn before it joins the River South Tyne. This station is closed, but the line remains open.
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This was a two platform station to the east of a level crossing. The goods yard was to the west, on the north side of the line and approached from the east. A loop ran round the south side of the westbound platform, leading to a siding to the east. To the west was a siding and turnplate for Carricks Factory, to the south.
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This was a two platform station to the east of a level crossing built for Naworth Castle, half a mile to the north. Platforms were staggered with the eastbound platform west of the level crossing and the westbound to the east. Opposite this on the north side was a two storey stone building station building on a short length of additional eastbound platform. The main platforms had timber ...
More detailsThis is a two platform station. Facilities are minimal, platform shelters and a fine footbridge. The station is around a mile and three quarters from Brampton itself, to the north west.
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This was a two platform station and is now just a level crossing. The platforms were staggered with the westbound on the west side of the level crossing and eastbound to the east. Opposite the westbound siding was a looped siding, serving a loading bank. The eastbound platform was narrow, with a siding to its north, approached from the east. The signal box was on the south side of the line, east ...
More detailsThis was a two platform station. The main building was by the westbound platform with a timber waiting room on the platform. The passenger station was west of an overbridge and to the east was the goods yard, which was on the north side and reached by reversal. The line is in a cutting.
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Known principally until relatively recently as the Corby Viaduct this is a five arch masonry double track viaduct over the River Eden. It was built between 1830 and 1834. The viaduct carries a footpath on the north side. It is immediately east of Wetheral station and not far west of Corby Gates Signal Box. The name Corby Viaduct now applies to the bridge east of Corby Gates. ...
More detailsThis is a two platform station with a fine footbridge and timber waiting shelter on the eastbound platform. It is immediately west of Wetheral Viaduct which crosses the River Eden. A modern, but traditionally styled, brick and timber shelter is on the westbound platform. A stone built railway building, now a house, with a glazed canopy is at the east end of the eastbound platform. Platforms ...
More detailsThis was a two platform station in the north of Scotby, to the east of Carlisle.
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This was the passenger terminus of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, the first station in Carlisle. The station was on the east side of London road and sidestepped, on its south side, by the 1837 branch to the Carlisle and Port Carlisle Canal.
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This was the original terminus of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway in Newcastle opened on the 21st of May 1839, the east end of an extension built from Blaydon over the River Tyne via the Scotswood Viaduct and along the north bank. It immediately replaced Redheugh as the terminus for Newcastle and was on the western edge of Newcastle in undeveloped land high above the Tyne, three ...
More detailsThis is a 44 arch viaduct south west of Newcastle Central on the former approach from Carlisle via Scotswood Viaduct.
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This was a temporary terminus for the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, the company's second terminus in Newcasle replacing Newcastle [Shot Tower] (opened 1839). It was opened in 1847 at the east end of the Forth Banks Viaduct which had been officially opened in 1846. The terminus, with temporary wooden buildings, was built at the west end of the Newcastle Central site, roughly the ...
More detailsThis 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 detailsOriginally the canal basin in Carlisle, this became the main goods yard of the North British Railway in Carlisle and an interchange point with the North Eastern Railway.
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This is a two platform station with staggered platforms on either side of a level crossing. The station has an old station building, fine gantry signal box over the line to the west of the level crossing and NER footbridge over the line to the east of the crossing. The eastbound platform is to the west of the crossing and westbound to the east. The station building, partly of two storeys and in ...
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