Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway)

Introduction

This line is closed.





Dates

02/05/1887Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway)
Coldstream to Wooperton opened to goods traffic.
05/09/1887Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway)
The Cornhill Branch (Coldstream to Alnwick) is opened throughout and for passengers with the opening of Wooperton to Alnwick. For the extra traffic Alnwick station re-built.
  /09/1930Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway)
Closed to passengers.
11/08/1948Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway)
Flooding damage washes away a bridge between Wooler and Idlerton. The bridge is not replaced and the line operated as two branches; Coldstream to Wooler and Alnwick to Idlerton.
02/03/1953Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway)
Idlerton to Alnwick (excluded) closed completely.
29/03/1964Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway)
Scottish Rambler No 3 runs from Coldstream to Wooler.
25/03/1965Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway)
Wooler to Coldstream (excluded) closed completely, the last part of the line.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This station was originally named Cornhill for the nearby Cornhill Castle. It was located in England but served Coldstream, a mile and a half north west over the River Tweed, in Scotland.
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Kelso Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway)
A service from Berwick to St Boswells calls at Coldstream on the morning of Saturday 13th June 1964, the final day of passenger services on the ...
Brian Haslehust 13/06/1964
I've heard of manicured lawns, but never manicured fields. This accommodation track-over-rail bridge at Coldstream was clearly built to last. ...
Ken Strachan 21/05/2014
We'll ramble again - don't know where, don't know when. (added during May 2020 lockdown). The beautiful trackbed West of Coldstream raises memories of ...
Ken Strachan 21/05/2014
Coldstream station was actually located across the border in the nearby village of Cornhill-on-Tweed. This view is south across the A697 from the ...
Ken Strachan 21/05/2014
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Cornhill Junction, south of Coldstream station. The branch to Alnwick is straight ahead running directly south whereas the route to Kelso curved ...
Ewan Crawford //1998
Simply beautiful. The single track solum from Cornhill Junction heading for Alnwick in May 2014. Taken ten feet forward and left from my previous ...
Ken Strachan 21/05/2014
A particularly rural outpost of the NER was Cornhill Junction, seen looking south in May 2014. The track to the right - now passable by bike if you ...
Ken Strachan 21/05/2014
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This was a single platform station with a loop, large two storey stone build station building (typical of the line and with a timber extension on the platform side) and large goods yard.
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The first station south from Cornhill on the branch line to Alnwick was at Mindrum, Northumberland see image 10891. The station closed to ...
John Furnevel 02/09/2006
In the event of passenger concerns regarding delays, cancellations or matters spiritual on the Cornhill branch appropriate passenger facilities were ...
John Furnevel 02/09/2006
In the foothills of the Cheviots stands this road sign for Mindrum station (closed to passengers in September 1930). Note the sign reads 'From Wooler' ...
Bruce McCartney 23/08/2011
Entrance to the impressive former station at Mindrum on the Cornhill branch on 2 September 2006. ...
John Furnevel 02/09/2006
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This was a level crossing with a signal box on the north side of line, west of the crossing.
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Kilham level crossing and sidings.
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A single platform station with the platform on a passing loop. The platform was on the south (Kirknewton) side of the station with a goods yard at the west end of the station, approached from the east via the west end of the loop line.
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The surviving stone signal box at the south end of the platform at Kirknewton on the Wooler branch. Viewed from the roadside in October 2006. The ...
John Furnevel 24/10/2006
The former station at Kirknewton, Northumberland, on the Wooler branch. Closed to passengers in September 1930, the building is now a private ...
John Furnevel 24/10/2006
The former station at Kirknewton, on the Wooler branch, looking north along the platform towards Coldstream in October 2006. ...
John Furnevel 24/10/2006
The former station at Kirknewton on the Wooler branch in the summer of 1969. The station closed to passengers in 1930 but the line itself survived ...
Bruce McCartney 23/08/1969
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This was a single platform station with a passing loop. A goods yard was served from a reversing spur which ran east from the east end of the platform line. The platform line was the loop, the other line being a straight through.
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Not often I find myself lost for words... the former Akeld station on the Cornhill branch. October 2006. ...
John Furnevel 24/10/2006
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Bendor Level Crossing in 1991, with what I presume to be the signalman's house. This view looking towards Akeld on the old NER Alnwick to Cornhill ...
Bill Roberton //1991
The line from Alnwick to Cornhill was built to last. Many of the buildings do, but passenger trains were withdrawn on 22 September 1930. After flood ...
Bill Roberton //1991
This is Bendor Level Crossing signal box just north of Wooler and near Akeld on Friday the 13th of January. A little bit of snow is on the ground. I ...
Alan Cormack 13/01/2017
What a pleasant surprise. A signal box still standing alongside the site of Bendor level crossing just to the east of Akeld station in October 2006. ...
John Furnevel 24/10/2006
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This was a two platform station in the east of Wooler. The two storey station building, typical of the line, was on the northbound platform, that closest to the town. This had a large timber extension porch on the platform side.
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Looking north past the corner of the goods shed to Wooler station building in 1991. Passenger services ceased in 1930 but there was goods traffic from ...
Bill Roberton //1991
Wooler goods shed, a substantial building, appears well maintained and is now used by an antique dealer. 10th May 2017. ...
Alan Cormack 10/05/2017
Wooler goods shed, a substantial building which looks to be well maintained. Now used by an antique dealer and photographed on 10th May 2017. ...
Alan Cormack 10/05/2017
The old goods shed at Wooler, photographed from the A697 on 24 October 2006. The building had recently been taken over by an antiques dealer. See ...
John Furnevel 24/10/2006
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This was a single platform station with a loop. The platform was on the north side of the loop, the southern track being a goods bypass. The station building was of two storeys, typical of the line. This had a long glazed porch on the platform side.
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This was a single platform station with a passing loop. The platform was on the west side with a two storey station building typical of the line and with a timber porch - extended at one end by a signal box (replacing an earlier box on the east side of the line opposite the south end of the platform).
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Entrance to the former Wooperton station, Northumberland, seen here looking east from the A697 in the summer of 2007. The station closed in 1930 and ...
John Furnevel 08/08/2007
Part of the forecourt and main building of the converted station at Wooperton on the Cornhill branch, seen from the main road on 8 August 2007. ...
John Furnevel 08/08/2007
Beware of the ..?...what! ...you cannot be serious... entrance to the former Wooperton station, 8 August 2007. ...
John Furnevel 8/08/2007
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This was a single platform station with a loop. The platform was on the west side on the loop line. The building was a two storey stone building, typical of the line. There was a signal box opposite the north end of the passenger platform, similar to that at Norham.
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The abutments of a bridge near Hedgeley station, on the Coldstream to Wooler line, with the A697 in background
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Bruce McCartney 02/06/2021
View east on 8 August showing part of the now privately owned Hedgeley station on the Cornhill Branch. ...
John Furnevel 08/08/2007
Part of the former station building at Hedgeley, Northumberland, photographed in August 2007 looking north towards Wooler. ...
John Furnevel 08/08/2007
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This was a single platform station with a passing loop. The platform line was the slow line, on the west side. Glanton itself, a village, is off to the west. The two storey station building was typical of the line.
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This immaculate rail-over-road bridge, just South of Glanton station, was clearly built to last. View looks East in July 2015. ...
Ken Strachan 13/07/2015
Approach to the long closed Glanton station on 8 August. View north towards Wooler. ...
John Furnevel 08/08/2007
The country station at Glanton, Northumberland (closed 1930), looking north along the platform side towards Wooler on 8 August 2007. ...
John Furnevel 08/08/2007
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This former island platform is a remarkably complete large site. The station building, a single storey, had canopies. On the west side was a large goods shed. To the east a row of railway cottages. The line was crossed by a girder bridge to the south. The building and the use of an island platform was not typical of the line.
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The old weigh house and coal drops at a pre-restoration Whittingham, Northumberland, in the summer of 2007. Photograph taken from the entrance road to ...
John Furnevel 09/08/2007
Everyone has seen the Whittingham station rebuild on TV, but what about the coal drops? July 2015 view. ...
Ken Strachan 13/07/2015
Looking north over the island platform at Whittingham in 1991, sixty one years after the last regular passengers departed. The building survives to ...
Bill Roberton //1991
Scene at Whittingham station, Northumberland, on 29 May 2004. View is north along the island platform towards Wooler, with the old goods shed standing ...
John Furnevel 29/05/2004
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This was a single platform station with a passing loop. The passenger platform was on the south side with a two storey stone building typical of the line. The signal box was on the opposite (north) side of the line.
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This substantial station closed in 1968. The station building remains standing and there are portions of platforms. It was the terminus of the line from Alnmouth and, from 1887, the line from Coldstream (the junction was south of the station.)
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Alnwick Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway)
Northern elevation of the large Alnwick trainshed. The view is towards the front entrance in 2002. ...
Ewan Crawford 27/12/2002
There is a very pleasant footpath from the former Alnwick station towards Lionheart station - you just need to pole vault over the town bypass to ...
Ken Strachan 12/07/2015
Looking north towards the main entrance to Alnwick station (now occupied by Barter Books) on 9 August 2007. In the background stands the towns ...
John Furnevel 09/08/2007
Interior of the former Alnwick station, opened in 1848 and now Barters Bookshop, seen here 50 years after closure on 16th June 2018. The line to ...
David Bosher 16/06/2018
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