Widdrington is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley.

[1] An average of 3 or 4 stopping services each way per day ran between Newcastle and Edinburgh Waverley via Berwick-upon-Tweed until the late 1980s.

Services were further reduced to their current level by British Rail in May 1991, due to a shortage of rolling stock.

[2] The local rail user group, SENRUG, has been campaigning to improve service levels at the station, and at neighbouring Pegswood, since September 2016.

[4] Rolling stock used: Class 156 Super Sprinter and Class 158 Express Sprinter In September 2021, TransPennine Express announced that they were seeking approval to have most of the services on their new five return trains weekday semi-fast Newcastle to Edinburgh return trains call at Widdrington.