Wetheral

CRS Code	WRL
Collected date	13/09/15

Wetheral station is a small station with two platforms on the Hadrian's Wall Country line. Although the station is now unstaffed and there are just open shelters, the old Station Master's house survives, and there's the impressive Corby Bridge to the station's east.

The approach to the station from Wetheral village, through its small car park:

The gate next to the footbridge leads on to platform 2 for trains towards Carlisle. It has a modern brick shelter:

The station has an old-style sign and (as at other stations along the line) an information board:

Both platforms are now cut short, with overgrown disused ends beyond fencing. Looking west along the line from the end of platform 2:

At the eastern end of platform 2, looking east along the line as it heads over the Corby Bridge (taking the railway and pedestrians to the nearby village of Great Corby):

Looking west along platform 2 we see the footbridge, of the standard modular Lancashire and Yorkshire type:

The end of the footbridge behind platform 2:

From the footbridge looking east along the line:

Looking west at the station from the footbridge:

The platform 1 side of the footbridge on the other side of the tracks:

Prominent on platform 1 is the old station master's house, now a private home:

It even has a small amount of glazed canopy:

And in the window a small campaign poster for the reopening of Gilsland station:

The side of the station building:

A footpath leads past the old station house across Corby Bridge. On the track side of the parapet is this inscription:

On the foootpath alongside the viaduct, looking east:

Back at the station proper, looking at the shelter on platform 1:

Inside the shelter which has benches and a blocked up fireplace:

Round the back of the shelter on platform 1 a path leads:

The path heads west along the line, climbing slowly:

Until it emerges level with the road which bridges the railway to the west of the station:

From the road bridge looking east towards the station:

Looking west along the line from the road bridge:

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