North Sunderland Railway

      North Sunderland Railway 
Locale Northumberland
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Legend
   East 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 1952.[2]

References

  1. ^ http://www.northumbrian-railways.co.uk/index.php?page=north-sunderland-railway
  2. ^ http://www.lner.info/co/NSR/index.shtml

External links

Railway stations in Northumberland
East Coast Main Line
(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
(Alston, Cumbria) → → Kirkhaugh • Slaggyford • Lambley • Coanwood • Featherstone Park • Haltwhistle
Amble branch line
Chevington • Amble
Blyth and Tyne Railway
The Avenue • Bebside • Bedlington • Blyth • Choppington • Hartley • Hepscot • Morpeth • Newbiggin • Newsham • North Seaton • Seaton Delaval • Seghill
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
Alnwick • Edlingham • Whittingham • Glanton • Hedgeley • Wooperton • Idlerton • Wooler • Akeld • Kirknewton (Northumberland) • Mindrum • Cornhill
Hexham and Allendale Railway
Kelso Branch
Tweedmouth • Velvet Hall • Norham • Twizell • Coldstream • Sunilaws • Carham → → (Kelso)
North Sunderland Railway
Ponteland Light Railway
(Gosforth) → → Ponteland • Darras Hall
Rothbury Branch
Wansbeck Railway
South Tynedale Railway