Manors Railway Station in Newcastle
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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alan-Heaths-History-Page/173472422695696 http://www.ceepackaging.com twitter : @ceepackaging https://www.facebook.com/pages/CEE-Packaging/135108923181666 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 old Manors terminus then became a coal depot and a new through station was provided above Trafalgar Street, on the site of the eventual platforms 6 and 7, access between platforms was by way of one of the arches of the new viaduct which we can see in this film. The railway layout at Manors did not change much until the 1880's when the North Eastern Railway embarked on the quadrupling of the main line to Heaton and the enlargement of Central Station. By then they had absorbed the Blyth & Tyne Railway whose Newcastle terminus lay in New Bridge Street, barely a thousand feet away from Manors. Widening between Manors and Heaton was completed in 1887 and a new station opened at Manors, on 13 June. The new station retained the down platform and office building of its predecessor, perhaps pending their eventual replacement if a link were formed to New Bridge Street. The up platform was replaced by a long island (later platforms 7 and 8) and a platform (later 9) high above Melbourne Street. Access between them was by means of the arch spanning Croft Lane. This public route provided a subway from which stairways led up to the new platforms. The steep fall of the land meant that the eastern entrance into Croft Lane lay much lower than the western one and so a second passage was provided, leading directly from the foot of the platform 7/8 stairs to a landing on the stairs leading up to platform 9. Quadrupling of the line between Manors and Central Station was completed in 1894 but the next significant development was alongside the railway rather than on it. This was the opening in 1901 of Manors Power Station to supply electricity to the City's tramway system. The competition stimulated not only the electrification of the Coast line but also the eventual construction of the Manors - New Bridge Street link with new platforms at Manors which opened on 1 July 1909. The extensions to Manors were made on a lavish scale, with two through platforms and three bays. These formed platforms 1 to 5 of the combined station but were called Manors North, while the older platforms became numbers 6 to 9 and were renamed Manors East. The suffixes North and East were dropped from the public timetable from 16 June 1947 although they continued in use in the working timetable and other official documents. In February 1969 the suffixes were officially dropped and the station was then known as Manors. The closure of the old Manors North platforms took place on 23 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 November 1982. After the closure of the Manors North platforms the station was then only served by a limited Morpeth local service on the main line. More information can be found here: http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/m/manors/index25.shtml My channel on you tube : http://www.youtube.com/alanheath is one of the most prolific from Poland. I have produced over 1,700 original films. My big interest in life is travel and history but I have also placed films on other subjects There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging -- http://www.ceepackaging.com - the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focusing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers. -
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