Cramlington railway station

Cramlington is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley. The station serves the town of Cramlington in Northumberland. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.

Cramlington
LocationCramlington, Northumberland
England
Coordinates55°05′16″N 1°35′55″W
Grid referenceNZ257771
Owned byNetwork Rail
Managed byNorthern Trains
Platforms2
Tracks2
Other information
Station codeCRM
ClassificationDfT category F2
History
Original companyYork, Newcastle and Berwick Railway
Pre-groupingNorth Eastern Railway
Post-grouping
Key dates
1 March 1847Opened
Passengers
2015/16 92,316
2016/17 94,544
2017/18 98,928
2018/19 107,800
2019/20 136,534
Location
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

In 2018/19, passenger usage at the station crossed into six figures at 107,800 entries and exits.[1]

Facilities

The station is unstaffed.[2] In February 2019, the local Council installed a ticket machine on the southbound platform. The machine allows contactless, and card for tickets, as well as being able to collect tickets. Travel tickets can still be purchased on board the train. There are waiting shelters on both platforms (but no other permanent buildings), along with timetable posters and next train real-time information boards to offer train running details. Step-free access is available to both platforms, though the footbridge linking them has steps.[2]

Northumberland County Council and the local rail users group SENRUG is campaigning to relocate the station to a new site 200 metres south of its present position, in order to better serve the town's Manor Walks shopping centre, Westmorland Retail Park and main employment areas.[3][4] The proposed site would also allow for the construction of a dedicated bus-rail interchange, a larger car park and serve several residential estates to the west built in the 1960s and 1970s.

Accidents and incidents
  • On 26 May 1926, during the General Strike, an express passenger train was deliberately derailed south of the station.[5][6]

Services
Route 1:
East Coast Main Line
 Chathill
 Alnmouth for Alnwick
 Acklington
 Widdrington
 Pegswood
 Morpeth
 Cramlington
 Manors
Newcastle
Most services extend to/from
Carlisle.

There are hourly local services to Morpeth and also to Carlisle via Newcastle Central. At peak times a few services continue to Chathill. There is an irregular but roughly two-hourly Sunday service, introduced in December 2017 as part of a new franchise agreement. Further service enhancements were implemented in May 2018.[7][8][9] Regular weekday through services to Hexham and Carlisle will also form part of the upgrade - these were introduced at the May 2019 timetable change.

References
  1. Estimates of station usage Archived 12 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine Office of Rail and Road; Retrieved 14 January 2020
  2. Cramlington station facilities Archived 20 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 6 February 2017
  3. "New Cramlington railway station could boost local economy" Archived 20 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine Northumberland County Council press release 27 September 2016; Retrieved 6 February 2017
  4. "Move Cramlington Station" Archived 20 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine South East Northumberland Rail Users Group; Retrieved 6 February 2017
  5. Hoole, Ken (1983). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 4. Redruth: Atlantic Books. p. 44. ISBN 0 906899 07 9.
  6. Earnshaw, Alan (1990). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 6. Penryn: Atlantic Books. p. 15. ISBN 0-906899-37-0.
  7. http://www.eavb.co.uk/ARN1217.pdf
  8. GB eNRT May 207 Edition, Table 48 (Network Rail)
  9. "SENRUG reposnse to Draft May 2018 Northern timetable" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Manors   Northern Trains
East Coast Main Line		   Morpeth
  Historical railways  
Annitsford   North Eastern Railway
York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway		   Plessey
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