Authorised in 1882 the Cornhill Branch was built to link the farming communities of north Northumberland with the market town of Alnwick and link the North Eastern Railway's Kelso line to its Alnwick Branch.
The line had difficulty attracting passengers as many of the stations were some distance from the communities they served.
Increased bus competition in the 1920s led to passenger trains being withdrawn on 22 September 1930[2] although the service resumed briefly during the Second World War to serve RAF Milfield near Akeld.
The line was thus split into two, Alnwick to Ilderton, and Coldstream to Wooler which included Akeld.
This article on a railway station in North East England is a stub.