Blaydon
Location type
StationName and dates
Blaydon (1835-)Station code: BLO National Rail
Where: North East England, England
Opened on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway.
Description
Blaydon is a two platform station with a small car park, just a lane, to the south.
Just to the east at Blaydon East Junction was the point of division between the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway's routes east to Newcastle Central (crossing the River Tyne) and Gateshead. It was briefly the east terminus of the line between 1834 and 1836, opening to passengers in 1835. Blaydon was pretty much the navigational limit of the River Tyne, just to the north. The Gateshead route opened to Derwenthaugh in 1836 and that to Newcastle opened over the Scotswood Viaduct and on to Shot Tower in 1839.
The station had a through trainshed, now removed. It was rebuilt in 1867. A rebuilding of 1912 resulted in a station with new buildings and canopies which survived until 1977. The footbridge survived this and still bore marks of the canopies, but been replaced. To the north were sidings adjoining a quayside.
The Redheugh route was long closed to passengers by 1982 when the Scotswood Viaduct closed and passenger traffic was diverted via Dunston (station re-opened 1984).
Blaydon Shed was on the south side of the Scotswood route, approached from the west.
The next station east, Metrocentre is on a 1904 deviation of the original line which was diverted south to the east of Derwenthaugh.
Tags
Station terminus trainshedExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Lemington Scotswood Derwenthaugh Swalwell [2nd] Swalwell [1st] Newburn Metrocentre Ryton Elswick Heddon-on-the-Wall Dunston Fugar Bar Rowlands Gill Newcastle [Shot Tower] Sunniside | Blaydon East Junction Works Cowans Crossing Lemington Staiths Consett Branch Junction Blaydon Shed Hazard Pit Tyne Iron Works Blaydon South Junction Scotswood Bridge Junction Scotswood Viaduct North Stella Powerstation South Stella Powerstation Scotswood Tunnel Swalwell North Junction |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| /03/1835 | Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Hexham to Blaydon opened. Initially there are no platforms at stations. |
| /03/1837 | Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Blaydon to Redheugh, Gateshead opened and a ferry operates to Newcastle. |
| / /1839 | Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Blaydon to Newcastle along the north bank of the Tyne opened, and line extended to Gateshead. |
News items
| 04/08/2021 | New additions to mural celebrate Blaydon's racing heritage [Northern] |
