Lewiefield Halt railway station

Lewiefield Halt
General information
Location	Lewie, Kielder, Northumberland England
Coordinates	55°12′50″N2°33′29″W / 55.214°N 2.558°W / 55.214; -2.558
Grid reference	NY646913
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
3 July 1933	Station opened
15 October 1956	Station closed to passengers and freight
Location

Border Counties Railway
Overview
Status	Closed
Locale	Roxburghshire, Scotland Northumberland, England
Service
Type	Heavy rail
History
Commenced	11 December 1855
Opened	2 April 1858 (1858-04-02)
Completed	24 June 1862
Merged into	North British Railway - 1860
Merged into	London North Eastern Railway - 1923
Merged into	British Railways - 1948
Closed	1 September 1958 (1958-09-01) (except Reedsmouth–Bellingham, closed 11 November  1963)
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Route map Legend Waverley Route to Edinburgh Riccarton Junction Waverley Route to Carlisle Saughtree Scotland England Deadwater Kielder Lewiefield Halt Plashetts Plashetts Colliery Waggonway portion of line flooded by Kielder Water Falstone Thorneyburn Tarset Charlton Bellingham Wansbeck Railway to Morpeth Reedsmouth Countess Park (1859–1861) Wark Barrasford Chollerton Chollerford (later Humshaugh) Wall Newcastle and Carlisle Railway to Carlisle Border Counties Bridge Border Counties Junction Hexham Newcastle and Carlisle Railway to Newcastle

Lewiefield Halt was a wooden-built halt that served the hamlet of Lewie, and a Ministry of Labour training camp, in Northumberland, England.

History

The halt was on the Border Counties Railway which linked the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, near Hexham, with the Border Union Railway at Riccarton Junction. The first section of the route was opened between Hexham and Chollerford in 1858, the remainder opening in 1862. The line was closed to passengers by British Railways in 1956. Part of the line is now beneath the surface of Kielder Water.

The halt was constructed primarily to serve a Ministry of Labour training camp built on Forestry Commission land nearby. The halt remained busy during the Second World War when the local camp was used to first house conscientious objectors, then refugees. After the war traffic to the halt was limited and it closed in 1956. ^[1] Only an overgrown platform remains of the halt today. ^[2]

Former services

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Kielder		LNER Border Counties Railway		Plashetts

References

1. Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 263. OCLC   931112387.
2. "Disused Stations: Lewiefield Halt".

External links

• Lewiefield Halt on Disused Stations
• Lewiefield Halt on a navigable 1955 O. S. map