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Dist:0.2km<br/>At a junction on the B6343 near Scots Gap.
©Oliver Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>The embankment and bridge abutments form part of the "Wannie" line from Morpeth to Reedsmouth, where there was a junction with the Border Counties Railway. The line was opened in 1865, closed in 1966.
©Oliver Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>The trackbed of the line to Morpeth half a mile east of Scotsgap. This is the view east where the embankment is used as a farm access track.
©Ralph Rawlinson
Dist:0.5km<br/>An important cattle mart and small village has grown up at Scots Gap on the site of a disused railway station which was a junction between the "Wannie Line" (Morpeth to Reedsmouth) and a branch line up to Rothbury.
©Oliver Dixon
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©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.6km<br/>An important cattle mart and small village has grown up at Scots Gap on the site of a disused railway station which was a junction between the "Wannie Line" (Morpeth to Reedsmouth) and a branch line up to Rothbury.
©Oliver Dixon
Dist:0.6km<br/>A little village, including this modern estate, has grown up around the railway junction at Scots Gap.
©Oliver Dixon
Dist:0.6km<br/>The Wansbeck Railway, linking Reedsmouth and Morpeth, 25 miles to the east, was sponsored by the North British Railway. Scotsgap to Morpeth opened in 1862 and the following year the company was absorbed by the NBR, who saw the possibility of having a route from Edinburgh to Newcastle via Riccarton Junction, Reedsmouth and Morpeth then over the Blyth & Tyne Railway. The North Eastern Railway also saw this possibility and prevented it by absorbing the BTR in 1874. Reesdmouth to Scotsgap opened in 1865 and this was followed in 1870 by the Northumberland Central's branch from Scotsgap - Rothbury. Its subsequent absorption by the NBR two years later led to the Morpeth - Rothbury line becoming the major route. The Wannie line was the name given to the fourteen mile section between Reedsmouth and Scotsgap which operated as a feeder service, although there were never more than three passenger trains daily in each direction. Passenger services were withdrawn in 1952 and the line closed to all traffic in 1966.
©Ralph Rawlinson
Dist:0.6km<br/>The site of Scot's Gap Railway Station. For a comprehensive history of the railway see Ralph Rawlinson's excellent description to his slightly earlier photograph [[[126012]]]. The 50k and 25k mapping have different apostrophe usage - Scot's on the 50k and Scots' on the 25k!
©Peter McDermott
Dist:0.6km<br/>The old station yard at Scot's Gap.
©Peter McDermott
Dist:0.9km<br/>Typical of the long stretches of straight road in this part of Northumberland. This road carries quite a lot of traffic between Newcastle and Rothbury, being probably easier and faster than the designated main roads.
©Oliver Dixon
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©Walter Baxter
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©Oliver Dixon
Dist:1.0km<br/>The small hamlet of Scots Gap.
©Christine Westerback
Dist:1.1km northwest<br/>Beside the Hart Burn at Oakford Bridge.
©Oliver Dixon

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