page_title: Alston railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Alston railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Alston station, general view 1954View SE to the terminal station and engine-shed, at the end of the ex-NER branch from Haltwhistle (see NY7146&#160;: Alston station, exterior 1954). In the station is a BR Standard 3MT 2-6-0 (tender-first) on a train for Haltwhistle.
context_page_description: Alston railway station once served the town of Alston, Cumbria, England. The station was the terminus of the Alston Line which ran from the junction at Haltwhistle on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway.
  It is now the terminus of the narrow gauge South Tynedale Railway, a heritage line, in Northern England.
context_section_description: The station was opened on 21 May 1852 by the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. The line was taken over firstly by the North Eastern Railway and later became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923, passing on to the Eastern Region of British Railways during the nationalisation of 1948. It was closed by the British Railways Board in 1976.
  The station hosted a camping coach in 1933 and from 1936 to 1939.
caption: Alston station, 1954
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