Backworth railway station
Backworth | |
|---|---|
 Backworth railway station in 1970 | |
| General information | |
| Location | Newcastle England |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Original company | Blyth and Tyne Railway |
| Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 28 August 1841 | B&T station opened as Holywell |
| April 1860 | B&T station renamed Backworth |
| 27 June 1864 | B&T station closed |
| 27 June 1864 | Opened as Hotspur |
| June 1865 | Renamed Backworth |
| 13 June 1977 | Closed |
Backworth railway station served part of Newcastle in the English county of Northumberland, later part of Tyne and Wear. The station opened as Hotspur, replacing another Backworth station on the line to Morpeth which had been opened as Holywell.
History[edit]
Opened by the North Eastern Railway, then joining the London and North Eastern Railway, the station passed to the North Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The line had been electrified (as the Tyneside Electric) by the North Eastern Railway in 1904 to fight competition from the newly built electric tramways, but was de-electrified in the 1960s.
The station was then closed by the British Railways Board to enable the construction of the Tyne and Wear Metro, but was not re-opened as part of that system. Initially Shiremoor was the nearest metro station to the site until the 2005 opening of Northumberland Park.
The site today[edit]
The closest station to Backworth today is Northumberland Park on the Tyne & Wear Metro, located a short distance to the south east of the original station site. It is around a twenty-minute walk from the centre of the village.
References[edit]
- R.V.J. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1 The halt is pictured on page 23.
- A. Jowett (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0
External links[edit]
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heaton Line open; station closed |
North Eastern Railway Blyth and Tyne Railway |
Backworth (Hollywell) Line open; station closed | ||
| North Eastern Railway North Tyneside Loop |
West Monkseaton |
55°02′02″N 1°31′05″W / 55.034°N 1.518°W
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