Greenhead was a former railway station, which served the village of
Greenhead, Northumberland
Greenhead is a village in Northumberland, England.United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map, Landranger NY, 2004 The village is on the Military Road (B6318), about from Chollerford, from Haltwhistle and from Brampton, Cumbria along the A69 road. ...
in Northumberland between 1836 and 1967.
History
The station opened on 20 July 1836 by the
Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
The Newcastle & Carlisle Railway (N&CR) was an English railway company formed in 1825 that built a line from Newcastle upon Tyne on Britain's east coast, to Carlisle, on the west coast. The railway began operating mineral trains in 1834 between ...
. On the east side was the goods yard and to the south was a locomotive shed and Blenkinsopp Colliery. The station closed on 2 January 1967.
A coal station still survives in the goods yard.
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Disused railway stations in Northumberland
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1836
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1967
Beeching closures in England