Wetheral railway station

Wetheral
265px Wetheral Station
Location
Place	Wetheral
Local authority	Carlisle
Grid reference	NY467546
Operations
Station code	WRL
Managed by	Northern
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	9,993
2005/06	11,448
2006/07	11,862
2007/08	13,419
2008/09	13,058
2009/10	13,786
2010/11	14,112
2011/12	17,434
2012/13	18,204
2013/14	17,258
2014/15	19,008
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Wetheral from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Wetheral railway station is on the Newcastle-Carlisle Tyne Valley Line in northern England, situated some seven minutes from Carlisle. The station serves Wetheral and Great Corby.

Passenger services are provided by Northern.

Access to the station is by a dead-end road from Wetheral village green, or by a footpath from the B6263 opposite Plains Road. A footbridge links the two platforms. Corby Bridge (popularly known as 'Wetheral Viaduct'), over which trains pass when leaving the station towards Newcastle, has a footpath that links the station with the nearby village of Great Corby.

The station has ten trains stopping in each direction on weekdays, with a reduced service on Sundays. Other faster passenger trains and goods trains pass through without stopping. Trains that stop at Wetheral also stop at all other stations west of Hexham on the Tyne Valley line. Passengers for stations between Hexham and Newcastle usually have to change at Hexham.

The station was originally staffed, and the old stationmaster's house still stands, as a private residence. The boarded up ticket windows are still visible. The station was closed during the Beeching Axe (in 1967) but reopened by British Rail in 1981 on an unstaffed basis.

External links

• Train times and station information for Wetheral railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Brampton		Northern Tyne Valley Line		Carlisle
	Historical railways
Heads Nook		Newcastle and Carlisle Railway North Eastern Railway		Scotby