📌 Heritage railway in Etal, Northumberland
★★★

Heatherslaw Light Railway is perhaps the most unexpected of the myriad attractions around the tourist’s paradise of Ford and Etal, Northumberland. This narrow-gauge steam railway hugs the River Till for five miles between Heatherslaw Corn Mill and Etal; spend an hour or two looking around the village before returning on a later train. The twenty-minute ride certainly isn’t the quickest way to travel (the same journey by road can be completed in a tenth of the time), but it’s surely the most scenic, with pleasant views across fertile farmland and distant rolling hills.

🌍 Location

📌 Heatherslaw station (main, south terminus) is on the B6354 1 mi south of Etal

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NT 934384

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.639038,-2.106685

🚌 Bus to Heatherslaw Mill

🚗 Car park

📌 Etal station (north terminus) is immediately west of Etal Castle, west side of Etal

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NT 924392

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.646435,-2.122578

🚌 Bus to Etal

🚗 Car park at Etal Castle

📝 Key info

⌚ Daily, May to early November; Saturday to Thursday in April

🎫 £9.50 adult / £5.50 child for return ticket

🔗 heatherslawlightrailway.co.uk

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