Swalwell railway station

Swalwell
Location
Place	Swalwell
Area	Tyne and Wear
Coordinates	54°57′10″N 1°41′22″W / 54.9527°N 1.6895°W / 54.9527; -1.6895Coordinates: 54°57′10″N 1°41′22″W / 54.9527°N 1.6895°W / 54.9527; -1.6895
Grid reference	NZ199620
Operations
Original company	North Eastern Railway
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	LNER British Railways (North Eastern)
Platforms	2
History
April 1868 (1868-04)	Station opened
2 November 1953	Station closed to passengers
7 March 1960 (1960-03-07)	Station closed completely
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Swalwell railway station was a railway station that served the village of Swalwell, Tyne and Wear, England from 1868 to 1960 on the Derwent Valley Railway.

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]

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