The Alnwick Branch (Aln Valley Railway)

Bilton Junction (Alnmouth) Station


Views looking north of Ticket office and Platform 1 22/06/14

 Northbound Freight 66528 in charge and HST service passes Platform 2  22/06/14

From Platform 2 looking towards Stephenson's Eighteen Arch Viaduct over the Aln Valley

Approaching Branch End, Views over Aln Valley towards Stephenson's 18 Arches Viaduct and Lesbury Station.




Green Rigg Over Bridge 







Cawledge Valley Viaduct.



Heavily overgrown on a walk 23/06/14. Robert Stephenson's 7 Arch Viaduct on the Aln Valley Railway crosses the Cawledge Burn. 




Footpath at Old Gasworks



Alnmouth and Cornhill Junction



Alnwick Bridge Street 













 Today Alnwick Station approaches seem to reflect litle of its former use.  These two photographs taken 13/1/15 show to the left the embankment behind the recent Lidl Supermarket below the overbridge on Bridge street.  The Photograph to the right a view from the bridge towards the station with Lidl in the foreground.

Alnwick Station and Yard


 Inside the Station now Barter Books many of the otiginal station features are preserved.  Drinking Fountain, In the station buffet the original Tiled NER Railway Map.


 Proudlock's Warehouse at Waggonway Road end of the yard and The Old Station Master's House.



The Aln Valley Railway (Lionheart Station)

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