Where is Alnwick railway station?

Alnwick railway station is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.4100°, -1.6990°.

Heritage railway stations · North East England

Alnwick railway station

Alnwick railway station in England North East, United Kingdom.

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Alnwick railway station is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

Photo gallery

From the Wikipedia article

Alnwick railway station served the town of Alnwick, in Northumberland, England. It was the terminus of two routes: the Alnwick branch line, which diverged from the East Coast Main Line at Alnmouth, and the Cornhill branch line to Coldstream.

Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.

Background

History

The first station on the edge of the town opened, along with the branch, on 19 August 1850; it was first used by a special train on 6 August. It was replaced by a station nearer the town centre, which was opened in 1887 by the North Eastern Railway. It became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the North Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was also the terminus of the Cornhill branch line to Coldstream, which closed to passengers on 22 September 1930. It was closed to passengers by the British Railways Board in January 1968 and completely in October 1968. In 1993, a proposal to…

Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.