Chathill railway station

Chathill
265px Chathill Railway Station - Station House
Location
Place	Chathill
Local authority	County of Northumberland
Grid reference	NU186270
Operations
Station code	CHT
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	1,503
2005/06	2,279
2006/07	1,037
2007/08	1,847
2008/09	1,864
2009/10	2,612
2010/11	2,642
2011/12	5,250
2012/13	2,794
2013/14	2,578
2014/15	2,448
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Chathill from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Chathill railway station is a railway station that serves the village of Chathill in Northumberland, England, and the nearby villages of Seahouses, Embleton, Bamburgh and Belford.

Although located on the East Coast Main Line, the station is served by just two arrivals and departures, Mondays to Saturdays, providing commuting links to and from Newcastle upon Tyne. The services are operated by Northern Rail, which also manages the station. As Chathill is the northern terminus of these services and the Northern Rail network, there are no direct connections between Chathill and stations further north (the diesel multiple unit used on these services runs empty northwards from here to Belford loop to reverse before returning to take up its southbound working).

The station was for many years served by loco-hauled stopping trains between Newcastle, Berwick-upon-Tweed & Edinburgh Waverley (the British Rail timetable for 1982 had four departures each way from here), but these were reduced in frequency & curtailed at Berwick by BR at the latter end of the 1980s and subsequently withdrawn altogether north of Chathill after the introduction of electric working on the ECML in 1991.

Because of the limited service, an easement permits passengers wishing to travel northwards towards Berwick-upon-Tweed and Scotland may double back via Alnmouth.

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Station approach in 1988

The station was opened by the Newcastle & Berwick Railway in 1847 and between 1898 & 1951, it was the southwestern terminus of the North Sunderland Railway. Independent until its takeover by the LNER in 1939, it formed a standard gauge rail link to the fishing village of Seahouses.

Services

The station sees only two services per day in each direction, and only on Mondays-Saturdays. Southbound services run to Newcastle at 07:08 & 19:10 (weekdays) and 07:10 & 18:36 on a Saturday in the May 2015 timetable; the weekday evening train is extended through to Hexham. Northbound services from Newcastle arrive (and terminate here) at 06:46 & 18:49 on weekdays and 06:50 & 17:59 on Saturdays, the latter in each case starts from MetroCentre.

There is no Sunday service.

Sources

• Wright, A., (1988), The North Sunderland Railway, The Oakwood Press, Locomotion Papers No. 36, ISBN 0-85361-335-4

External links

• Train times and station information for Chathill railway station from National Rail
• Northumbrian Railways - Chathill Station

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Alnmouth		Northern Rail East Coast Main Line Mondays-Saturdays only		Terminus
	Disused railways
Terminus		London and North Eastern Railway North Sunderland Railway		North Sunderland