Twizell

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Twizell (1861-1955)

Opened on the Kelso Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway).

Description

This was a small two platform station. Platforms were staggered, the eastbound being slightly west of the westbound. There was a single storey stone building at the east end of the eastbound platform and small timber waiting shelter on the westbound. At the east end, on the south side of the line, was a goods yard added in the 1880s. The signal box was at the east end of the platforms.

The station closed to passengers in 1955 and the line closed in 1965.

Railway cottages, which were to the west of the station, on the north side of the line, remain in use as houses. The loading bank also remains. The trackbed is now a dirt road.

The station site was on the south bank of the River Tweed, around half a mile from Twizell Castle to the south east.

Alternative, later, spelling: Twizel.

Tags

Station

Aliases

Twizel

External links

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


Chronology Dates

  /  /1861Kelso Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway)
Twizell and Wark [Sunilaws] opened.
04/07/1955Kelso Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway)
Local stations closed. Velvet Hall, Twizell, Sunilaws, Carham, Sprouston closed. Tweedmouth, Norham and Coldstream remain open.

News items

30/03/2021Engineers use ropes and cradles to carry out repairs on Northumberland viaduct [Northumberland Gazette]
23/06/2010Volunteers prepare 1891 built Twizell [Northern Echo]

Books


Alnmouth To Alnwick, Coldstream And Berwick (Country Railway Routes)

Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong