Our crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to support this project has hit its target and we are grateful to everyone who supported us.  

We are working with Wallsend Local History Society and Haltwhistle Film Project to develop palns to create the documentary bearing in mind the recent government annWartime Escapeouncement of the easing of Covid restrictions in the months ahead.  As part of this project we have also secured funding from Community Rail Network and CrossCountry Trains and this will be used to provide a storyboard at Newcastle Station, some signage at Haltwhistle and a specially written song to feature in the film.

Further updates will be provided in due course.

The current timetable produced by the TVCRP  is available here. Front cover

Or, if you are just looking for departure times from a particular station, you can use the links below:

Carlisle

Wetheral

Brampton

Haltwhistle

Bardon Mill

Haydon Bridge

Hexham

Corbridge

Riding Mill

Stocksfield

Prudhoe

Wylam

Blaydon

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Dunston

Newcastle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even with the country being in a state of lock down, working and planning continues. Tyne Valley Community Rail Partnership (TVCRP) recently held its first online feedback of the Lyric & Line project, which has seen singer and songwriter Gareth Davies-Jones working with three groups with additional needs, using music and songwriting to facilitate experiences of rail travel. The pilot project was funded from TVCRP’s resources and it is hoped that using music to facilitate communities’ voice will continue.

A project to revive the waiting rooms and redundant wooden buildings at Haltwhistle Railway Station saw work start on site in September 2020.  This is the biggest project that Tyne Valley Community Rail Partnership has led and will create vastly improved waiting areas for passengers and new studio and office space. Read the latest project update about the work undertaken in the last 12 months here.

Brampton (Cumbria) is a station on the Newcastle – Carlisle line. For many years it was known as Brampton Junction, as when the line was built the Earl of Carlisle did not want the railway going anywhere near his property so this rural station is rather remote and was linked to Brampton Town by a short branch line. This closed as long ago as 1923, and is now a footpath. Brampton is managed by Northern and has a two hourly train service, but it is hoped this will be improved in subsequent timetable changes.