Wetheral railway station


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.
The station is owned by Network Rail and is operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services.
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, 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 a roughly hourly service in each direction on weekdays since the 2019 summer timetable change, 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 cuts on 2 January 1967, but was reopened by British Rail on 5 October 1981.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed. There is a ticket machine in the shelter on Platform 2 ; tickets should be bought prior to travel. Train running information is provided via timetable posters or by telephone. Shelters are located on each platform. There is level access to the eastbound Platform 1, from the Plains Road/Steele's Bank junction on the west side, and from Corby Crossing on the east side. There is level access to the westbound Platform 2, from the small car park on the south side of the station. The footbridge does not have ramps.
Northern Rail provides free WiFi access on the station.