Haydon Bridge railway station

The original station house of June 1836, photographed in 1956

The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway was formed in 1829, and was opened in stages.[1] The section of that line between Hexham and Haydon Bridge was opened on 28 June 1836;[2] the terminus station at Haydon Bridge was temporary, and was replaced by a permanent station on 18 June 1838,[3] when the line was extended to Greenhead.[2] The next station to the east of Haydon Bridge was Fourstones,[4] which closed in 1967.[5] The station became an unstaffed halt the same year, though the main station building is still intact and used as a private house.

The station's distinctive manually operated wooden level crossing gates (as seen in the accompanying photograph) have been replaced by modern lifting barriers in January 2009,[6] although they remain under the control of the adjacent NER signal box.

There are now ticket facilities at the station as one on the Newcastle-bound platform was introduced in 2018. There are shelters on each platform, with that on the southern (eastbound) side the more substantial. Train running information can be obtained from timetable posters, digital displays or by telephone; there is a payphone on platform 2. Step-free access is available to both platforms via the level crossing.[7]

Northern Trains Route 4: Tyne Valley Line
West Coast Main Line to Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow South Western Line to Glasgow Carlisle Cumbrian Coast Line to Barrow-in-Furness & West Coast Main Line to London Euston Settle to Carlisle Line Wetheral Brampton Haltwhistle Bardon Mill Haydon Bridge Hexham Corbridge Riding Mill Stocksfield Prudhoe Wylam Blaydon MetroCentre Dunston East Coast Main Line to London King's Cross Newcastle East Coast Main Line to Edinburgh Durham Coast Line to Middlesbrough

The station now has an hourly service for most of the day Monday-Saturday (since the May 2018 timetable change). On Sundays, there is a two-hourly service each way.[8]

• Train times and station information for Haydon Bridge railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Hexham		Northern Tyne Valley Line		Bardon Mill
	Historical railways
Fourstones Line open, station closed		North Eastern Railway Newcastle and Carlisle Railway		Bardon Mill Line and station open