Railway Station

HER Number

3437

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Railway Station

Place

Blaydon

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Railway Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Railway Station

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

A railway station, on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway (SMR 3292). Blaydon Railway Station was opened on 9th March 1835, the beginning of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company. The line on this initial opening extended 17 miles to Hexham. Two locomotives drew the first train - "Rapid" by Stephenson and Company and "Comet" by Hawthorns. They took one and a half hours to do the journey. The glass roof of the later station was blown out during an air raid in 1942.

Easting

418480

Northing

563510

Grid Reference

NZ418480563510

Sources

<< HER 3437 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 2; N.G. Rippeth, 1990, Blaydon in old picture postcards