Newcastle and Berwick Railway Terminus, Oxford Street

HER Number

1200

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Newcastle and Berwick Railway Terminus, Oxford Street

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Railway Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Railway Station

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

In 1847 the Newcastle and North Shields Railway was extended as part of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway to a new terminus in what is now Oxford Street, Tynemouth. The buildings were designed by John and Benjamin Green and they survive alongside the later classical buildings. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

436730

Northing

569090

Grid Reference

NZ436730569090

Sources

<< HER 1200 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89; I. M. Ayris & S. M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p.11; Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 9/105; H. E. Craster, 1907, History of Northumberland, vol VIII, p 355; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1299917