Lucker

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Lucker (1847-1953)

Opened on the Newcastle and Berwick Railway.

Description

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.

The goods yard was on the west side of the line north of the station and reached by reversal.

Other than a few dressed stone walls near the level crossing and railway cottages to the west little has survived of the station.

To the north of the station were the Lucker Watertroughs.

Local

The station was three miles south west from Bamburgh Castle .

Nearby the castle is Bamburgh Castle Golf Club and the RNLI's Grace Darling Museum .

Tags

Station

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North-east v. 4 (A regional history of the railways of Great Britain)

Newcastle (Rail Centres)

Newcastle To Alnmouth.: and the Amble Branch. (Eastern Main Lines.)