Wooperton

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Wooperton (1887-1930)

Opened on the Cornhill Branch (North Eastern Railway).

Description

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).

A girder bridge crossed the north end of the station. At the south end a reversing spur ran south from the platform line, serving a goods yard on the west side.

The station closed to passengers in 1930 and completely in 1953.

The station building survives as a house as do railway cottages which were on the west side of the line, south of the passenger station.

Much of the site is now a sawmill. A and J Scott

Wooperton Hall is 2/3 of a mile to the west.

Tags

Station

External links

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


Chronology 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.

Books


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