page_title: Belford, Northumberland
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Belford, Northumberland / Transport
caption_attribution_description: English: Belford Station. View northward, towards Berwick; ex-NER East Coast Main line, Newcastle - Berwick-on-Tweed - Edinburgh. This station was closed 29/1/68, but it is to be reopened to serve Holy Island tourists. (See also Beal NU0642&#160;: Beal Station. (The signalbox, new at the time, contrasts with the characteristic architecture of the station).
context_page_description: Belford is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England, about halfway between Alnwick and Berwick-upon-Tweed, a few miles inland from the east coast and just off the Great North Road, the A1. At the 2001 census it had a population of 1,055, increasing to 1,258 at the 2011 Census.
  Belford is surrounded by rich pastoral farmland, and to the west of the village is found one of the better rock climbing locations in the county, Bowden Doors.
context_section_description: Belford was for many years a coaching stop on the main A1 road from London to Edinburgh, which passed through the village. However, in 1983 a bypass was opened, and, freed from the constant traffic and pollution, the village could hold events on the High Street and in the Market Place once again.
  Belford railway station opened on 29 March 1847. Freight services ceased on 7 June 1965 and the station finally closed for passenger services on 20 January 1968. However, on 8 February 2010 Northumberland County Council agreed plans to resume passenger services by constructing a new platform, access and car parking.
caption: The former Belford railway station in 1965
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