page_title: Haltwhistle railway station
section_title: Alston branch line
hierarchical_section_title: Haltwhistle railway station / Alston branch line
caption_attribution_description: English: Haltwhistle station
context_page_description: Haltwhistle railway station is a railway station which serves the town of Haltwhistle in Northumberland, England. It is located on the Tyne Valley Line 23 miles east of Carlisle. The station is owned by Network Rail and is operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services.
context_section_description: The station was also formerly the terminus of the Alston to Haltwhistle Railway, a branch line of the Newcastle to Carlisle. Originally built to access the mines around Alston, this line never fulfilled its economic potential and it was closed in 1976 following the completion of an improved road between the two towns.
  The track was lifted the following year after a preservation attempt by the South Tynedale Railway Preservation Society proved unsuccessful. The society did eventually succeed in buying part of the line and built the South Tynedale Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage railway running from Alston, along the former trackbed as far as Lintley Halt and to Slaggyford by Easter 2017.
  The path of the line follows the Pennine Way for some of its route, and was mentioned by Alfred Wainwright in his Pennine Way Companion.
caption: The Alston train waits in June 1973
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