Disused Stations:Tweedmouth Station

Looking south-east from the goods dock on the up side of the tracks at Tweedmouth in September 1977. The NER-built locomotive roundhouse is in the distance on the opposite side of the main line.
Photo by John Mann

Looking north-west from the goods dock on the up side of the tracks at Tweedmouth in September 1977. The passenger station had been demolished for about a decade and its site is ahead in the centre of the photograph.
Photo by John Mann

A general view of Tweedmouth yard in 1985. Cardiff Canton-based Class 37 No.37279 - an unusual visitor to north-east England – is shunting an engineers’ train.
Photo by Andrew Wylde from Railways of Berwick and the Eastern Borders private Facebook group

The East Coast main line between Hitchin and Edinburgh was electrified in 1991. In this view from August 1986 Tweedmouth yard Is busy in preparation for electrification.
Photo by Andrew Wylde from Railways of Berwick and the Eastern Borders private Facebook group

An aerial view of the site of Tweedmouth station in July 2006. North is at the top of the image. Northumberland Road (A1167) passes under the railway at the left (western) edge. The passenger station buildings were located in the centre of the photo, below the double-track main line close to where the lorries are parked. To the right of the passenger station there were formerly a number of sidings providing access to the two locomotive sheds and the loco repair shop. Above the main line and the three engineers’ sidings were the goods facilities developed by the North Eastern Railway. The extensive site has yet to be redeveloped.

A pair of Black 5s are seen in Tweedmouth yard in April 2010 and the wires are in place for electric traction on the main line which began in 1991. No. 45407, a Stanier-designed 4-6-0 was built by Armstrong Whitworth (Scotswood, Newcastle upon Tyne) in September 1937 for the LMS who allocated her number 5402. She was withdrawn on 31 August 1968 from 24C, Lostock Hall shed (Preston), at the very end of the British Rail steam era, and is now preserved on the East Lancashire Railway.

Photo by Neri Photography from their Flickr photostream

The North Eastern Railway’s 1877-78 ‘square roundhouse’ locomotive shed is the only Victorian structure of Tweedmouth station to survive into the 21st century. It was used as a builders’ merchant’s premises, but after two fires in 2009 and 2010 the building will probably be demolished. It is shown here, in September 2012.
Photo by Neri Photography from their Flickr photostream

External view of the roundhouse in October 2012.
Photo by John Furnevel

A modest feature to survive the carnage at Tweedmouth station is this sandstone gatepost at the end of the station approach road running from Northumberland Road, photographed in October 2012. Another stands on the opposite side of the road.
Photo by John Furnevel

Direct Rail Services, Class 37s, No. 37425 leading with 37423 'Spirit Of The Lakes' and 37409 'Lord Hinton' head through the site of Tweedmouth station working the 0Z39 Carlisle Yard-Tweedmouth FD in July 2013. The 37s would head to Berwick station where they would do a run around before heading back to Tweedmouth to take over on the Northern Belle charter.
Photo by Neri Photography from their Flickr photostream

A driver’s view of the approach to Tweedmouth on the down line in July 2015. The site of the passenger station is ahead (north-west).
Photo from TAP Ltd

A driver’s view looking south-east from the site of Tweedmouth passenger station in July 2015.
Photo from TAP Ltd

July 1960

August 1969

February 1986

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[Source: Alan Young]

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