Chathill railway station
Chathill 
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Chathill Railway Station - Station House
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| Location | |
| Place | Chathill |
| Local authority | County of Northumberland |
| Grid reference | NU186270 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CHT |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 5,250 |
| 2012/13 |
 2,794 |
| 2013/14 |
2,578 |
| 2014/15 |
2,448 |
| 2015/16 |
2,574 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Chathill from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Chathill railway station is a railway station that serves the village of Chathill in Northumberland, England, and the nearby villages of Seahouses, Embleton, Bamburgh and Belford. It is situated 46 miles (74 km) north of Newcastle.
Although located on the East Coast Main Line, the station is served by just two arrivals and departures, Mondays to Saturdays, providing commuting links to and from Newcastle upon Tyne. The services are operated by Northern, which also manages the station. As Chathill is the northern terminus of these services and the Northern network, there are no direct connections between Chathill and stations further north (the diesel multiple unit used on these services runs empty northwards from here to Belford loop to reverse before returning to take up its southbound working).
The station was for many years served by loco-hauled stopping trains between Newcastle, Berwick-upon-Tweed and Edinburgh Waverley (the British Rail timetable for 1982 had four departures each way from here), but these were reduced in frequency and curtailed at Berwick by BR at the latter end of the 1980s and subsequently withdrawn altogether north of Chathill after the introduction of electric working on the ECML in 1991.
Because of the limited service, an easement permits passengers wishing to travel northwards towards Berwick-upon-Tweed and Scotland may double back via Alnmouth. The local rail user group SENRUG has been campaigning since September 2016 to have local services on the Newcastle - Berwick - Edinburgh corridor increased (to offer more choice for commuters and offer leisure opportunities for visitors to locations such as Lindisfarne and St Cuthbert's Way) which would see service levels from here improved if the proposals were adopted.
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