Newcastle East Junction: A Metro-Cammell DMU photographed leaving the east end bays at Newcastle Central in 1972 on a North Tyne loop service. The former NER parcels depot stands in Westgate Road on the right. See image 9463
John Alexander //1972

Newcastle East Junction

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Newcastle East Junction (1848-)

Opened on the Newcastle and Berwick Railway.

Description

This junction is directly east of Newcastle Central station. It is the junction between the old main line to the south and the main line north to Berwick-upon-Tweed and Edinburgh Waverley. The keep of Newcastle Castle is located in the 'V' of the junction.

Both lines meeting here were opened by the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, the line from the south approaching from Gateshead over the High Level Bridge.

The junction is famous for the sheer number of lines which crossed here, today it is much simplified.

Local

The junction is overlooked by the keep of Newcastle Castle .

Tags

Junction
12/01/2021




News items

10/10/2022Futureproof: £4.5m Newcastle track upgrade completed [Network Rail]

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: The North-east v. 4 (A regional history of the railways of Great Britain)

Newcastle (Rail Centres)

Newcastle To Alnmouth.: and the Amble Branch. (Eastern Main Lines.)