Main Lines
Industrial Lines
- First Shilbottle Wagonway
- Second Shilbottle Wagonway
- Shilbottle Brickworks Railway
- Hare Crag Quarry Railway
- Brickworks Tramway on Alnwick Moor
- Northumberland Estates Sawmill Railway
- Longhoughton’s Limestone and Whinstone Tramways
- Sanctuary Wood Sawmill Tramway
- Lemmington Hall Railway
- Meakins and Dean Contractors Railway
Other lines a little further from Alnwick
- Whittle and Shilbottle Colliery Railways
- Brickworks Railway near Swarland
- Forestry Railway at Swarland
- Moor House Quarry Railway
- WW1 Forestry Railway at Thrunton Woods
- Limestone and Whinstone Quarry Railways at Little Mill
- Howick Quarry Railway
- Pipe Works Craneway at Howick
- Longframlington to Whittle Cableway
Further details of these railways, and others in the vicinity, can be obtained from the four volumes of ‘Northern Northumberland’s Minor Railways’ by Roger Jermy, published by The Oakwood Press.
For the use of photographs in this section thanks must be given to the following: The Armstrong Photographic Trust, Gordon Hall, Cliff Shepherd, Geoff Waters, Roger Jermy, Ken Middlemist, Peter Nicholson, the late Gordon Hall, ‘Derry’ Moffatt, Aln Valley Railway Trust, Dr. Chris Down, The Miller Family collection, Beamish Museum collection, F.P. McCann Ltd. and the Scottish Mining Museum.
A Chapter of Accidents at Alnwick Station
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