Cramlington is a railway station on the

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, which runs between and . The station, situated north of Newcastle, serves the town of

Cramlington Cramlington is a town and civil parish in Northumberland. It is north of Newcastle upon Tyne. The name suggests a probable founding by the Danes or Anglo-Saxons. The population was 28,843 as of 2021 census data from Northumberland County Cou ...

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, England. It is owned by

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and managed by

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History

The station was opened by the Newcastle and Berwick Railway on 1 March 1847. From November 2021 to May 2022, the footbridge was refurbished.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed.Cramlington station facilities
''National Rail Enquiries''; Retrieved 6 February 2017 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.

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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. 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.

Services

Northern Trains

As of the December 2023 timetable change, there is an hourly service between

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and Morpeth on weekdays and Saturdays. Most services extend to

Carlisle Carlisle ( , ; from ) is a city in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. Carlisle's early history is marked by the establishment of a settlement called Luguvalium to serve forts along Hadrian's Wall in Roman Britain. Due to its pro ...

via

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. At peak times, two trains per day (excluding Sunday) extend to/from Chathill. Sundays see a two-hourly service each way to and from the MetroCentre. At present, all services are operated by

. Rolling stock used: Class 156 ''Super Sprinter'' and Class 158 ''Express Sprinter''

TransPennine Express

In September 2021,

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announced that they were seeking approval to have some of the services on their new five return trains weekday semi-fast Newcastle to Edinburgh return trains call at Cramlington. As of December 2023, TransPennine Express operate a limited service of one train to Newcastle on Mondays to Saturday mornings, with no Sunday service and no northbound service. Rolling stock used: Class 802 ''Nova 1''

Accidents and incidents

* On 26 May 1926, during the

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, an express passenger train, hauled by LNER A1

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No. 2565 ''Merry Hampton'', was deliberately derailed south of the station.

References

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* {{Railway stations served by TransPennine Express Railway stations in Northumberland DfT Category F2 stations Former North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1847 Railway stations served by Northern Railway stations served by TransPennine Express 1847 establishments in England Cramlington