Wetheral railway station

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Wetheral

Location

Place

Wetheral

Local authority

Carlisle

Operations

Station code

WRL

Managed by

Northern Rail

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

9,993

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Wetheral from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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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 platforms. Corby Bridge (popularly known as 'Wetheral Viaduct'), over which trains pass when leaving the station towards Newcastle, has a footpath that 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 that stop at Wetheral also stop at all other stations 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 reopened in 1984 on an unstaffed basis.