Signal Boxes and Crossing Boxes on the route today - (AHB denotes Atomatic Half Barrier)

(some are now out of use)

  • Tyneside
  • Blaydon
  • Addison (AHB)
  • Clara Vale (AHB)
  • Wylam
  • Prudhoe
  • Dilston (AHB)
  • Hexham
  • Warden (AHB)
  • Haydon Bridge
  • Bardon Mill (out of use)
  • Haltwhistle
  • Denton School (AHB)
  • Denton Village (manned crossing box)
  • Upper Denton (AHB)
  • Lane Head (manned crossingbox)
  • Low Row
  • Naworth (AHB)
  • Milton
  • Brampton Fell
  • How Mill (AHB)
  • Broadworth (AHB)
  • Corby Gates

Signal Boxes and Crossing Boxes on the line in 1976:

  • Newcastle
  • Scotswood (controlled coal to Stella North)
  • Blaydon (controlled branch line to Tyne Yard and also worked the Tyne Yard)
  • Cowans (controlled entrance to Stella South only 0800-1600 and 2200-0600, no Sundays)
  • Addison
  • Peth Lane (manned crossing box)
  • Wylam
  • Prudhoe
  • Dilston
  • Hexham East
  • Hexham West (only open for shunting controlled entrance to coal cells)
  • Warden
  • Haydon Bridge
  • Bardon Mill (only open for Engineering Works)
  • Haltwhistle
  • Blenkinshop
  • Denton School (manned crossing box))
  • Denton Village (manned crossing box)
  • Upper Denton (AHB)
  • Denton Hall (manned crossing box?)
  • Lane Head (manned crossingbox)
  • Low Row
  • Naworth (AHB)
  • Milton
  • Brampton Fell
  • How Mill
  • Broadworth (manned crossing box)
  • Corby Gates

Haltwhistle box

Hexham box