Alnmouth railway station (also known and signposted as Alnmouth for Alnwick) serves the coastal and rural villages of Alnmouth and Lesbury, and the market town of Alnwick, in Northumberland, England. It lies north of on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between and . It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.
History The station was opened on 1 July 1847 as Bilton by the Newcastle and Berwick Railway; from 1854, it was operated by the North Eastern Railway (NER). On 19 August 1850, it became the junction for the Alnwick branch line and was significantly upgraded by the NER in 1887–88. On 2 May 1892, the station's name was changed to Alnmouth.
It became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed to the North Eastern Region of British Railways upon nationalisation in 1948. The Alnwick branch service was withdrawn in January 1968, with goods traffic ending in October the same year.
The station had an additional platform face on the 'down' (northbound) side for use by branch trains, but the track and buildings were lifted in the early 1970s after the branch was closed; this was removed altogether prior to the station being refurbished in 2004. The main building on the southbound platform is not original; it was erected in 1987 to replace the original structures constructed when the Alnwick branch opened in 1850.
When sectorisation was introduced, the station formed part of the InterCity sector until the privatisation of British Rail.
Facilities
The station is staffed, with the ticket office on platform 1 open every day of the week (06:40-18:15 Mon-Sat, 10:20-21:30 Sundays). A self-service ticket machine is also provided (this can be used to collect pre-paid tickets as well as for use when the booking office is closed). There is a waiting shelter and help point on platform 2, with a waiting room, vending machine and toilets on platform 1. Level access is available to both platforms via lifts in the footbridge. Train running information is offered via automated announcements, a passenger information system and timetable posters.
Services The station is served by four train operating companies, which provide the following general service in trains per hour/day (tph/tpd):
London North Eastern Railway 1 tp2h to , via , , , , and 1 tp2h to .
CrossCountry 1 tp2h to , via Newcastle, , and ; of which: 1 tpd extends to 1 tp2h to Edinburgh Waverley; of which: 1 tpd extends to , via .
TransPennine Express 8 tpd to Edinburgh Waverley, calling at , , and 8 tpd to Newcastle, calling at .
Northern Trains 2 tpd to 2 tpd to Newcastle.
The Aln Valley heritage railway has long-term ambitions of extending its running line to Alnmouth station from its current terminus at .
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