dd TYNE VALLEY Railways HEXHAM

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Ernies Northumbrian Railway Archive

17th February 2006

Hexham is the largest town between Carlisle and the Newcastle upon Tyne metropolis. There were formerly branch lines to Allendale and the former North British railway up the North Tyne Valley to Riccarton Junc on the Waverley route. These had all closed by 1956 however Hexham remains the terminus of a local service to Newcastle and there are also the through trains to Carlisle, some of which are 156 powered Scotrail services on to Stranraer and Glasgow.
There used to be a thriving goods yard but the end of Speedlink services finished off the Hexham Pickup which used to convey resin and glue for Egger. Another development in the late 80's was the use of the former northern carriage sidings as a ballast terminal for stone quarried at Barrasford. The sidings were sold to the Stone company as part of the deal; unfortunately after a few years the Railway said the stone was not of the right quality and cancelled the contract.
When EWS took over the freight services they made an effort to capture the log traffic from the massive Kielder forest and ran a daily pick up from Carlisle. Unfortunately by this time most of the goods yard was unfit for use and the only siding useable could only hold 7 wagons. The stone company was approached to see if their sidings could be used but not un-naturally having paid out money for nothing they would not play ball and EWS gave up the service. Nowadays no freight traffic originates anywhere on the line between Carlisle and Newcastle but there are still several through services conveying coal, containers, limestone and for the present steel ingots.

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