Kirknewton Railway Station is located on the North Eastern Railway line from Alnwick to Cornhill. The station buildings on this line were built to the designs of William Bell in red sandstone. Somewhat extravagant design for a rural railway, they feature half-hipped dormers, cross gables, decorated barge boards and wrought iron finials. The station is in use as a residence, as is the station master's house. A signal box still stands on the platform (HER 2119). No obvious goods shed, but no doubt there was one originally. There is a terrace of three railway cottages about half a mile to the east.
The traders of Alnwick persuaded the NER to propose a line 'in a neglected part of the territory'from Alnwick to Wooler and thence to Cornhill. The schemes came before Parliament in 1881 and 1882 and the line opened in 1887. Passenger services were never very profitable. Closed to passengers 22 September 1930 and to goods 30 March 1953. (1)

Small railway station like that at Edlingham on the same (Alnwick to Cornhill railway line). This had a single platform with a single-storey building set hard against the road, with a glassed in canopy between the two end pavilions. It is now a private residence. (2)

North Eastern House (former Kirknewton station) is now converted into a residential dwelling. Dating from c.1887 it was probably designed by William Bell. Like his other stations on the Alnwick-Cornhill line it is an extravagant design with half-hipped gables, wrought-iron finials and substantial chimney stacks. (3)