Backworth railway station

Backworth
Backworth railway station in 1970
Location
Place	England
Area	Newcastle
Operations
Original company	Blyth and Tyne Railway
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
28 August 1841	B&T station opens as Holywell
April 1860	B&T station renamed Backworth
27 June 1864	B&T station closes
27 June 1864	Station opens as Hotspur
June 1865	Station renamed Backworth
13 June 1977	Station closes
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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

Opened by the North Eastern Railway, then joining the London and North Eastern Railway, the station passed to the 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

Tyne and Wear Metro now serves Northumberland Park, located a short distance to the west.

References

• ISBN 1-85260-508-1 The halt is pictured on page 23.
• ISBN 0-906899-99-0

External links

• Backworth on navigable 1946 O. S. map

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Heaton		North Eastern Railway Blyth and Tyne Railway		Seghill
		North Eastern Railway North Tyneside Loop		West Monkseaton