- North Sunderland Railway
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North Sunderland Railway Locale Northumberland Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) LegendEast Coast Mainline
Chathill East Coast Mainline
Pasture Hill Quarry
North Sunderland Bamburgh (proposed)
Seahouses
The North Sunderland Railway was a four mile single track branch railway line in Northumberland, England, that ran from Chathill on the East Coast Mainline to Seahouses via the station of North Sunderland with a proposed extension to Bamburgh.History
Authorised in 1892 the North Sunderland Railway was built privately to serve the newly constructed harbour at Seahouses[1]. Construction started in 1896, and the line opened in 1898 for freight on 1 August, and passengers on 18 December. The line was rarely profitable and thus the proposed station at Fleetham, and the extension to Bamburgh were never constructed.
The line was taken over by the LNER in 1939, and the line closed on 27 October 1951 and officially wound up in the April of 1952[2].
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(Newcastle Central) → → Cramlington • Stannington (closed) • Morpeth • Pegswood • Widdrington • Chevington (closed) • Acklington • Alnmouth • Longhoughton (closed) • Little Mill (closed) • Christon Bank (closed) • Chathill • Newham (closed) • Lucker (closed) • Belford (closed) • Smeafield (closed) • Beal (closed) • Goswick (closed) • Scremerston (closed) • Tweedmouth (closed) • Berwick-upon-Tweed → → (Edinburgh Waverley)Newcastle and Carlisle Railway (Newcastle Central) → → Heddon on the Wall (closed) • Wylam • North Wylam (closed) • Prudhoe • Stocksfield • Riding Mill • Corbridge • Hexham • Fourstones (closed) • Haydon Bridge • Bardon Mill • Haltwhistle • Greenhead (closed) •
Gilsland (closed) → → (Carlisle Citadel)Former railway lines Alnwick branch line Alston Line Amble branch line Chevington • AmbleBlyth and Tyne Railway Border Counties Railway Hexham • Wall • Chollerford • Chollerton • Barrasford • Wark • Reedsmouth • Bellingham (North Tyne) • Charlton (Northumberland) • Tarset • Thorneyburn • Falstone • Plashetts • Lewiefield Halt • Kielder • Deadwater → → (Riccarton Junction)Cornhill Branch Hexham and Allendale Railway Kelso Branch North Sunderland Railway Ponteland Light Railway Rothbury Branch Wansbeck Railway Morpeth • Meldon • Angerton • Middleton/Middleton North • Scotsgap • Knowesgate • Woodburn • ReedsmouthHeritage Railways South Tynedale Railway (Alston, Cumbria) → → KirkhaughCategories:- North Eastern Railway (UK)
- Closed railway lines in North East England
- Railway lines opened in 1867
- Rail transport in Northumberland
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