Where is Jesmond railway station?

Jesmond railway station is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.9819°, -1.6048°.

Historic houses · North East England

Jesmond railway station

Jesmond railway station in England North East, United Kingdom.

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Jesmond railway station is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Jesmond was a railway station, serving the suburb of Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne in Tyne and Wear, England. It was opened on 27 June 1864 as part of the Blyth and Tyne Railway's line to Newcastle New Bridge Street, and closed on 23 January 1978 when the line was shut for conversion into part of the Tyne and Wear Metro. With the opening of the Metro, it was replaced by the Jesmond Metro station, situated underground some 120 metres (390 ft) to the north-west. The old station buildings still exist, and the main building is a grade II listed building. It is used as a public house known as The Carriage. The track through the station is still used by Metro trains as part of a link between the line to the north of Jesmond and the line to the west of Manors. However this link is not used by trains carrying passengers, and no trains now stop at the old station.

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History

In the 1860s the Blyth and Tyne Railway, which until then had linked Blyth with Percy Main and Tynemouth, built an extension to a terminus at Newcastle New Bridge Street that included, as its penultimate stop, Jesmond station. The station opened, along with the line, on 27 June 1864. The station was built between 1861 and 1864, possibly to a design by John Dobson. The station had two side platforms, with the principal station building on the western of the two, and a simple waiting shelter on the other. The three bay principal building was built of brick, with stone quoins and a Welsh slate roof. A station master's house was provided to the south of the station building. The station closed…

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