Manors North train station october 2022

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This wasnt a bad explore and almost on the door step to me, this old station was once used in the get carter film, i was lucky enough to be going pasts and the lock was broken and so i went back with my torc, the place was going to be converted into a restaurant in 2005 but this did not happen, here is a little history about the place.

Date closed to passengers 23.1.1978
The first Manors station was the western terminus of the Newcastle & North Shields Railway. A terminus was planned near the new Royal Arcade but the station was never built, because of speculation about a Central Station to serve all the Newcastle railways, existing and planned. Instead, the company curtailed their line on the east side of a street called Manors where they built a temporary terminus.


Although the line opened in 1839, the station buildings were not complete until the beginning of 1842. In the event, the company was taken over by the Newcastle & Berwick Railway who brought their line into a junction at Heaton and so gained access over the North Shields route to the centre of Newcastle. From another junction on the east side of Trafalgar Street they extended further into the city centre, to a junction with the Newcastle and Darlington line at the new Central Station.

The closure of the old Manors North platforms took place on 23rd January 1978 in readiness for the construction of the new Metro. The Metro used a new underground alignment bypassing Manors and then taking over the old North Tyneside loop via Tynemouth, this opened on 14.11.1982.

One of the subways at Manors was used in the cult 1971 film 'Get Carter' . Michael Caine is seen looking down to the station entrance at the corner of Melbourne Street and Trafalgar Street. These stairs led up to the island platform (7 & 8) and to a subway to Platform 1. The stairs have now been stripped out and a restaurant is being (2005) built in the old station entrance.