West Jesmond

The station was opened on 1 December 1900 by the North Eastern Railway on the route of its Blyth and Tyne line that had opened 36 years earlier. The station was built in response to the spread of terraced housing in the area, to the east of Town Moor. The station had two side platforms, linked by an underground pedestrian subway and with the principal buildings on the east side and a waiting room on the west side. The buildings were single story, in red brick, and the principal building had a central ridged gable with hipped roof pavilions at either end. The platforms originally had glass awnings to shelter passengers, but these were removed in the 1970s, although the remnants can still be…