Wetheral railway station

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Wetheral
Location
Place	Wetheral
Local authority	Carlisle (borough)
Operations
Station code	WRL
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	2
Annual entry/exit 02/03	0.036 million *
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Wetheral railway station is a station on the Newcastle-Carlisle Tyne Valley Line in northern England, situated some seven minutes from Carlisle, and serving the affluent village of Wetheral.

Passenger services are provided by Northern Rail.

Access to the station is by a dead-end road from Wetheral village green, or by a footpath from the B6263 opposite Plains Road. A footbridge links the two plaforms. Wetheral viaduct, over which trains pass when leaving the station towards Newcastle, has a footpath which links the station with the nearby village of Great Corby.

The station has approximately seven trains every day stopping in each direction. Other faster passenger trains and goods trains pass through without stopping. Trains which stop at Wetheral also stop at every other station west of Hexham on the Tyne Valley line. Passengers for stations between Hexham and Newcastle usually have to change at Hexham.

The station was originally staffed, and the old stationmaster's house still stands, as a private residence. The boarded up ticket windows are still visible. The station was closed during the Beeching Axe but later reopened on an unstaffed basis.