Fontburn Halt was a weatherboard and corrugated-iron-built railway station in

Northumberland Northumberland ( ) is a ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North East England, on the Anglo-Scottish border, border with Scotland. It is bordered by the North Sea to the east, Tyne and Wear and County Durham to the south, Cumb ...

, England, on the Rothbury Branch, built to serve the pre-existing Whitehouse lime works and later the Whitehouse Colliery, and quarries.

History

In 1859 Parliament authorised the Wansbeck Railway Company to build the line from to . In 1862 the line from to opened. The next year the Northumberland Central Railway were authorised to construct a line from to Ford on the Berwick to Kelso line. They were also permitted to build a short branch line to Cornhill. Due to financial difficulties the line was to be built in stages starting with the section from to which was started in August 1869 and completed by November 1870. The

North British Railway The North British Railway was one of the two biggest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping. It was established in 1844, with the intention of linking with English railways at Berwick. The line opened in 1846, ...

and the branch line became part of the

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after London, Midland and Scottish Railway, LMS) of the "Big Four (British railway companies), Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It ope ...

in 1923. In September 1952 passenger services were withdrawn and the line closed in November 1963. Constructed to serve Whitehouse lime works, the station later had a number of sidings serving various other local industries including the construction of the nearby

Fontburn Fontburn is a drinking water reservoir situated northwest of the market town of Morpeth, and immediately to the east of Harwood Forest in Northumberland, England. It has a surface area of 34.979 ha and a mean depth of 9.644 m, a catchment area ...

reservoir.
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Fontburn Halt on Northumbrian RailwaysFontburn Halt on Disused Stations
{{Closed stations Northumberland Disused railway stations in Northumberland Former North British Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1904 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1956 1904 establishments in England