DescriptionByker Station (remains) - geograph.org.uk - 1958369.jpg
English: Byker Station (remains),
View NW, towards Riverside Junction (immediately to the left) and Newcastle (Central); ex-North Eastern Riverside Line, (Newcastle -) Riverside Junction - Walker - Percy Main (- Tynemouth) , electrified in 1904. (Tyneside electric railway services were usurped by DMUs in 1967, prior to the inauguration of the Tyne & Wear Metro in 1980). Byker station closed on 5/4/54 and is now replaced by a Byker station on the Metro opened 14/11/82. The Riverside Line lost its by then exiguous passenger service in 7/73, but goods continued along at least part of the line until 25/9/87.
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