The Wansbeck Railway was a single track railway line in Northumberland, England, that ran from Morpeth to Reedsmouth, where it made a junction with the Border Counties Railway. Conceived as part of a through trunk route for the North British Railway, it never achieved its potential. It opened in stages from 1862 to 1865. Mineral traffic kept the line going; the population was sparse. In 1870 the Rothbury branch opened, from a junction on the Wansbeck line at Scotsgap. The passenger train service was discontinued in 1952 and the line closed completely in 1966.