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.


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

Sunday 18th August

Photographs of our members enjoying a short walk at Alwinton with wonderful views 

Photographs by Bob Preston and from our Facebook page