Welcome
NRWS is a friendly walking group based in Northumberland, founded in 1986 to encourage preservation of our disused railway lines as walking corridors.
We welcome members from a wide catchment area which is reflected in our varied walk programme.
Our walk leaders aim to provide a fun and interesting day out typically over 5-8miles with points of interest reflecting our local heritage and history especially but not exclusively, our railways. We walk on Sundays twice per month. The group often gather for coffee or food too at the end of a walk. With concern growing for climate change we have been actively involved as volunteers in local environmental projects such as tree planting and maintenance.
We also organise walking holidays and social events as part of our annual programme.
Your membership includes a quarterly printed journal called Trackchat which provides reports on past walks and details of future walks
For details of our forthcoming walks programme please visit our Forthcoming Events page, our current programme for the year is available on our Annual Programme page
Regretfully dogs are not allowed on our walks
We have changed the way we show photographs of our activities. The home page now only shows our two most recent activities, for more photographs of earlier activities over the years, please click here for our Photo Gallery page giving photographs from our many years of walks.
Sunday 6th October
Our photographer Dave was back to record our walk on thw Derwent Way across the viaduct to Linz Green station, site of the 1911 unsolved murder of the Station Master. Linzford is where the old mill was located and a talk from one of the residents, then followed the Red Kite trail with several viewings. As you can see, there were some strange sights as well!
Berwick Brewery
Saturday 14th September
We met in Berwick on a Saturday for a tour of some of the sites open for Heritage open days
Photographs by Bob Preston
Berwick Gunpowder House
Berwick Ice House
Sunday 1st September
Long time since our photographer Dave was on a walk so here are his pictures from the walk around Prudhoe and Wylam.
Misty weather with a touch of drizzle. A nice cafe at the end at the Country park to have a coffee and a chat.
Photographs by Dave Turpin and Margaret Middleton