Pegswood railway station
Pegswood 
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| Location | |
| Place | Pegswood |
| Local authority | County of Northumberland |
| Coordinates | 55°10′41″N 1°38′38″W / 55.178°N 1.644°WCoordinates: 55°10′41″N 1°38′38″W / 55.178°N 1.644°W |
| Grid reference | NZ227871 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | PEG |
| 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 |
 1,904 |
| 2012/13 |
 1,650 |
| 2013/14 |
1,166 |
| 2014/15 |
1,114 |
| 2015/16 |
2,574 |
| History | |
| 1903 | opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Pegswood from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Pegswood railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the village of Pegswood, Northumberland. It is 287 miles 20 chains (462.3 km) down the line from London King's Cross and is situated between Morpeth to the south and Widdrington to the north. Its three-letter station code is PEG. It is a small station with few services calling there.
It is managed by Northern, which operates two southbound trains and one northbound train per day (excluding Sundays, when there is no service). Access to the platforms is via sloping tarmacadamed footpaths, and transfer between the northbound and southbound platforms is provided by the road overbridge at the north end of the station.
The station has featured in one of Bill Bryson's books – the author took the train to Pegswood before walking to Ashington.
The station was opened by the NER in 1903 (to serve the nearby village and colliery), more than 50 years after the line itself. The station was twice threatened with closure after nationalisation - firstly in 1958 and again in 1966 during the Beeching cuts, but was reprieved each time. Until 1968 it was served by through trains to Alnwick, whilst a handful of through services (on average 3-4 each way per day) to and from Alnmouth, Berwick-upon-Tweed and Edinburgh Waverley continued to call right up until the late 1980s. However, the electrification of the line led to these being cut back to Berwick; they were further cut (and reduced in frequency to the present residual level) by British Rail in May 1991 due to a shortage of rolling stock. The local rail user group (SENRUG) has been running a campaign to improve service levels here and at neighbouring Widdrington since September 2016.
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