📌 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, 31 March 2 November 2025
🎫 £11.50 adult / £6.50 child for return ticket
