Morpeth railway station

Another station was opened by the Blyth and Tyne Railway on 1 April 1858 and closed 24 May 1880.[2] This was a terminus station that was also used by North British Railway trains from the west from Scotsgap.[3] From the opening of their line in 1862 until 1872.[4] The B&T line to Bedlington lost its passenger trains in April 1950 (although occasional summer services between Scotland and the North Eastern coastal resorts continued operating over it until the 1960s), but it remains in use for freight and may have its passenger trains restored in the future (as an extension of the current local stopping service) - the South East Northumberland Rail User Group is currently campaigning for this.[5] The current local service from Newcastle that terminates here uses the connection onto the B&T line north of the station to reverse and layover clear of the main line between trips.

Passenger trains over the old NBR line from Scotsgap, Reedsmouth and Rothbury ended in September 1952[6] and it closed completely in 1966 - few traces of this route now remain.

Northern Trains Route 1: East Coast Main Line
East Coast Main Line to Edinburgh Chathill Alnmouth Acklington Widdrington Pegswood Morpeth Cramlington Manors Durham Coast Line to Middlesbrough Newcastle Tyne Valley Line to Carlisle East Coast Main Line to London King's Cross

Monday to Saturdays: There is a regular hourly service to Newcastle. Most trains start or terminate here though there are two trains per day which operate to/from Chathill in the morning and evening peaks. Nearly all trains continue via the Tyne Valley line to and from Carlisle since the May 2019 timetable change. On Sundays, a two-hourly service operates to/from here to the MetroCentre with no service to/from Chathill.[10]

London North Eastern Railway routes
Inverness Aviemore Kingussie Pitlochry Perth Gleneagles Stirling Falkirk Grahamston Aberdeen Stonehaven Montrose Arbroath Dundee Leuchars Kirkcaldy Inverkeithing Glasgow Central Motherwell Haymarket Edinburgh Waverley Dunbar Berwick-upon-Tweed Alnmouth Morpeth Sunderland Newcastle Durham Darlington Northallerton York Leeds Skipton Keighley Bradford Forster Square Shipley Harrogate Horsforth Leeds Wakefield Westgate Hull Brough Selby Doncaster Retford Lincoln Central Newark North Gate Grantham Peterborough Stevenage London King's Cross

LNER provide a limited service: There are seven trains per day northbound to Edinburgh Waverley (one of which extends to Aberdeen) and seven trains per day southbound; five go to London King's Cross, one terminates at Leeds and one only goes as far as Newcastle.

A small number of CrossCountry services stop here as well as those of LNER - five each way on weekdays and Saturdays, plus three on Sundays in the December 2018 timetable. Southbound, these run to Birmingham New Street and then onward to the south west of England.[11]

In December 2019, TransPennine Express began operating an hourly service between Liverpool Lime Street and Edinburgh Waverley with Class 802s and run non-stop to Edinburgh after calling at Morpeth.[12]

In May 2016, the Office of Rail and Road granted operating rights to new operator East Coast Trains to operate services from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley via Stevenage, Newcastle and Morpeth. This service is projected to start operating in 2021.[13][14][15]

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• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.