Disused railway lines and closed stations in Northumberland

245 miles of disused railway
96 closed stations
22 stations open today
44 named lost lines

Northumberland has 245 miles of disused railway and 96 closed stations, against 22 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 4.4 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Coldstream & Alnwick, with 35 miles of its route inside Northumberland.

See Northumberland’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 245 miles of lost railway in Northumberland break down as 212 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 30 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 3.4 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Northumberland

44 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Northumberland; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Coldstream & Alnwick	35
Border Counties Line	30
Morpeth Branch	22
Morpeth-Rothbury	13
Hexham and Allendale Branch	12
Kelso Branch	12
Wallridge Mineral Railway	8.6
Alston Line	7.2
Kelso & Berwick	6.0
Amble Branch Line	5.0
Whittle Colliery	4.3
Border Counties Railway	4.1
North Sunderland Railway	4.0
Ashington Colliery Railway	3.0
Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway	2.6
Isabella Colliery Branch	2.4
North Seaton Colliery	1.9
Ross Links Military Target Railway	1.9
Brampton Hartleyburn Railway	1.8
Shilbottle Colliery Tramway	1.8
Blyth Branch	1.7
Seaton Suice Branch Line	1.7
Avenue Branch	1.6
Cramlington Colliery Railway (East Hartford Branch)	1.6
Callerton ICI Branch	1.4
Scremerston Colliery	1.4
Cramlington Colliery Railway (Dudley Branch)	1.4
Shilbottle Colliery	1.4
Cramlington Colliery Railway (Lamb Pit Branch)	1.3
Broomhill Colliery	1.2
Darras Hall Branch	1.2
South Tyne Trail	1.2
Ashington Junction to Butterwell Junction	1.2
Cramlington Colliery Railway (West Cramlington Branch)	1.2
Mickley Waggonway 1766	1.2
Linton Colliery	1.1
Bedlington Colliery Lines	0.9
Newbiggin Branch	0.9
North Haul Road	0.7
York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway Alnwick Branch	0.7

And 4 shorter stretches: Ashington Colliery, Kirkhouse Branch, Collywell Bay Branch Line and Blythe Water Works.

Closed railway stations in Northumberland

All 96 closed and former stations in Northumberland, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Northumberland

22 stations in Northumberland still have a train service. The busiest are Berwick-upon-Tweed (707,310 a year), Morpeth (622,614 a year), Hexham (431,278 a year), Alnmouth (378,954 a year) and Prudhoe (184,264 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Tyne and Wear, Scottish Borders, County Durham and Cumbria.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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