Old Railway Street Station

This Victorian railway station building, taken from the corner of Railway Street, dates all the way back to 1872. They were rather cold and draughty places lit by gas lamps. The station on the Newcastle to South Shield line lasted for almost a century before it was demolished in the 1960′s.

Old Railway Station: Newcastle to South Shield 1950's

In the picture you can see parked outside the station a three wheeled motor vehicle. Known as a Scammel truck, British Rail used these type of vehicles throughout the country to deliver goods and rail freight within there respective neighbourhood’s.

Railway Street, Metro Station: Present Day 2010

Although today it is still used as a railway station it has changed completely, gone are the old draughty Victorian buildings, to be replaced by a landscaped view with the entrance to a more up to-date user friendly station building, now being run by Nexus as a passenger link for the Tyneside Metro to Newcastle Upon Tyne, with links to Sunderland and main line stations on route.