Swalwell railway station

Swalwell railway station served the village of Swalwell, Tyne and Wear, England from 1868 to 1960 on the Derwent Valley Railway.

Swalwell
The site of the station in 2012
General information
Location	Swalwell, Tyne and Wear England
Coordinates	54.9527°N 1.6895°W / 54.9527; -1.6895
Grid reference	NZ199620
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	LNER British Railways (North Eastern)
Key dates
April 1868 (1868-04)	Opened
2 November 1953	Closed to passengers
7 March 1960 (1960-03-07)	Closed completely
Location

History

The station opened in April 1868 by the North Eastern Railway. The station was situated on the south side of Hexham Road on the B6317. Freight traffic served collieries, coke-ovens, brickworks, paper mills, dairy farms and the livestock market at Blackhill. This declined during the Second World War. After the war, the station failed to recover its passenger numbers, so it inevitably closed on 2 November 1953. As the road traffic became more efficient, freight traffic declined until it ceased on 7 March 1960.^[1] An excursion train later ran to Whitley Bay on 16 June 1962.^[2]