Brinkburn Halt
Location type
StationNames and dates
Brinkburn (1870-1948)Brinkburn Halt (1948-1952)
Opened on the Northumberland Central Railway.
Description
This was a single platform station, with the platform on the east side of the line. The date of the change of station to a halt in unclear. Brinkburn is a parish, Brinkburn Priory is around three miles away by road to the east.
The station building had a single storey. To the north of this on the platform was a lever cabin and goods hut. A railway cottage, which still stands, was to the south of the station building.
The station goods yard was on the east side of the line, approached from the north. Initially a single siding and later two.
A former pillbox, part of the Coquet Stop Line (one of several lines of pillboxes erected in the Second World War, this one followed the River Coquet), is on the east side of the site.
Tags
Station haltExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
07/12/2018
| Nearby stations Rothbury Fontburn Halt Ewesley Longwitton Edlingham Halt Whittingham Acklington Chevington Scotsgap Middleton North Glanton Angerton Broomhill [Northumberland] Warkworth Meldon | Lee Siding Lee Pit Forestburn Colliery Rothbury Shed Forestburn Quarry Whitehouse Colliery Ewesley Quarry Whitehouse Quarries Whitehouse Lime Works Fontburn Viaduct Limekilns Quarry Tourist/other Cragside Brinkburn Priory Fontburn Reservoir |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 North British Railway in Northumberland, The |  The Northumberland Central Railway | The Rothbury Branch (Locomotion Papers) |
