Amble railway station was the terminus of the

Amble branch line The Amble branch line was a branch railway line in Northumberland, England, that ran from Amble Junction north of Chevington on the East Coast Main Line to Amble via Broomhill. The line was single track to Broomhill and then double track to ...

, which diverged from the

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at Chevington in

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. The branch opened in 1849 and closed to passengers in 1930. The station remained open for goods and coal until final closure in 1969.

History

Opened by the North Eastern Railway, it became part of the

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the " Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At th ...

during the

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of 1923. The station closed to passengers seven years later, but the goods service then passed on to the

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in 1948. It was then withdrawn by the

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. The station has been demolished and the site is now a public carpark.

References

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Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

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