Northumbrian Railways

New Bridge Street

• 27/06/1864 Opened by B&TR as city terminus for it's Tynemouth line.
• 1902 2 road engine shed demolished to make way for link to Manors North.
• 29/03/1905 Electric train service inaugurated from New Bridge Street to Benton.
• 31/12/1908 Closed to passengers with opening of link to Manors North.

The New Bridge Street terminus had 4 platforms, these were demolished after closure to passengers and the site used as a coal depot.

Postcard of an electric train at New Bridge Street in 1904.

New Bridge Street Goods

• 01/10/1906 First stage opened.
• 02/01/1907 Building work completed.
• 1941 Station bombed and, although concrete and therefore "fireproof", the goods housed there and the wooden chutes burned for several weeks. The basement continued as the area's central sack hire depot until that business ceased in 1963, and the yard remained in use for road deliveries to the greenmarket and all points to Tynemouth. It only handled wagon-load traffic by that time.
• 04/12/1967 Closed.

Viewed from the north New Bridge Street Goods is off to the left. The 4 central tracks lead to Manors North, while the coal yard on the site of the old New Bridge Street Station is off to the right.
(Brian Johnson 1962)

View from the post-war office block looking north west toward the coal depot on the site
of the former New Bridge Street passenger station. (Brian Johnson 1963)

The southern end of the bombed out main structure. (Brian Johnson 1963)

The basement, from the entrance to the roadway tunnel under New Bridge Street which was the only road access to the basement, wagon lifts provided for the transfer of rail trucks between the 2 levels. (Brian Johnson 1963)