Alnwick railway station

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.

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 redevelop the site into a supermarket failed.

The site today

The trainshed remains intact and in use, including by Barter Books; the platforms have been in-filled.
The bookshop, with its model railway network, was featured in Michael Portillo's Great British Railway Journeys and Tim Dunn's The Architecture the Railways Built.