Cramlington is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley. The station, situated 9 miles 74 chains (9.92 mi; 16.0 km) north of Newcastle, serves the town of Cramlington in Northumberland, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.

Cramlington
General information
Location	Cramlington, Northumberland England
Coordinates	55°05′16″N 1°35′55″W
Grid reference	NZ257771
Owned by	Network Rail
Managed by	Northern Trains
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	CRM
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	Newcastle and Berwick Railway
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway British Rail (North Eastern Region)
Key dates
1 March 1847	Opened
Passengers
2016/17	94,544
2017/18	98,928
2018/19	107,800
2019/20	136,534
2020/21	29,804
Location
Cramlington Location in Northumberland, England
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

The station was opened by the Newcastle and Berwick Railway on 1 March 1847.[1]

From November 2021 to May 2022, the footbridge was refurbished.[2]

Facilities

The station is unstaffed.[3] In February 2019, the local Council installed a ticket machine on the southbound platform. The machine allows contactless, and card for tickets, as well as being able to collect tickets. Travel tickets can still be purchased on board the train. There are waiting shelters on both platforms (but no other permanent buildings), along with timetable posters and next train real-time information boards to offer train running details. Step-free access is available to both platforms, though the footbridge linking them has steps.[3]

Northumberland County Council and the local rail users group SENRUG is campaigning to relocate the station to a new site 200 metres south of its present position, in order to better serve the town's Manor Walks shopping centre, Westmorland Retail Park and main employment areas.[4][5] The proposed site would also allow for the construction of a dedicated bus-rail interchange, a larger car park and serve several residential estates to the west built in the 1960s and 1970s.

Services

Northern Trains

Northern Trains Route 1
v t e
East Coast Main Line
Chathill Alnmouth Acklington Widdrington Pegswood Morpeth Cramlington Manors Newcastle MetroCentre
Most services extend to/from Carlisle.

As of the December 2021 timetable change, there is an hourly service between Newcastle and Morpeth. Most services extend to Carlisle via Hexham. At peak times, two trains per day (excluding Sunday) extend to Chathill. At present, all services are operated by Northern Trains.[6]

Rolling stock used: Class 156 Super Sprinter and Class 158 Express Sprinter

TransPennine Express

In September 2021, TransPennine Express announced that they were seeking approval to have some of the services on their new five return trains weekday semi-fast Newcastle to Edinburgh return trains call at Cramlington.[7] As the procedure required for the operator to be recognised as meeting the safety and operational requirements necessary for calling at Cramlington were ongoing at the time of the announcement, it is possible that the service will start calling at this station at some point after its planned commencement in December 2021.[7]

Accidents and incidents

• On 26 May 1926, during the General Strike, an express passenger train was deliberately derailed south of the station.[8][9]

References

External links

• Media related to Cramlington railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Train times and station information for Cramlington railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Manors towards Newcastle		Northern Trains East Coast Main Line		Morpeth towards Morpeth or Chathill
Newcastle		TransPennine Express North TransPennine		Morpeth
	Historical railways
Annitsford		North Eastern Railway York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway		Plessey