Disused railway lines and closed stations in Tyne and Wear

202 miles of disused railway
103 closed stations
8 stations open today
57 named lost lines

Tyne and Wear has 202 miles of disused railway and 103 closed stations, against 8 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 12.9 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Leamside Line, with 10 miles of its route inside Tyne and Wear.

See Tyne and Wear’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 202 miles of lost railway in Tyne and Wear break down as 118 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 74 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 9.6 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Tyne and Wear

57 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Tyne and Wear; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Leamside Line	10
Seaton Burn Wagonway	8.6
Pontop and South Shields Branch	7.1
Hetton Colliery Railway	6.0
Pontop & Jarrow Railway	6.0
Riverside Line	5.0
Pontop and Jarrow Railway	4.7
Scotswood to Durham via Consett Line	4.3
Austin & Pickersgill's Yard Branch	4.3
Fawdon Wagonway	4.0
Marsden & Whitburn Colliery Railway	3.9
Penshaw Branch	3.9
Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway	3.7
Tanfield Branch	3.5
Killingworth Waggonway	3.3
Earsdon Junction to Northumberland Dock Line	3.0
Jarrow Branch	3.0
Tyne Yard	2.8
Murton and Durham Elvet Line	2.7
North Walbottle Waggonway	2.4
Towneley Main Waggonway	2.3
Throckley Colliery	2.2
Avenue Branch	2.1
Team Colliery Wagonway	2.0
Victoria Tunnel	2.0
Mickley Waggonway 1766	1.9
Newburn Branch	1.9
Harton Branch	1.8
Backworth Colliery Railway	1.7
Hawthorn Colliery Branch	1.7
Queen Alexandra Bridge Branch	1.7
Redheugh Branch	1.6
Coxlodge Waggonway	1.5
Victoria Garesfield Colliery Railway	1.5
Collywell Bay Branch Line	1.4
Killingworth Wagonway	1.3
Gosforth Park Light Railway	1.2
Rainton & Seaham Railway (North Hetton Branch)	1.1
Blaydon to Scotswood Line	1.1
Cramlington Colliery Railway (Dudley Branch)	1.0

And 17 shorter stretches: Backworth Colliery Algernon Pit, Fawcett Street Junction to Hendon Junction, North Dock Branch, Lambton Branch, The Cut, Rainton & Seaham Railway, Callerton ICI Branch, Dunston Extension, Rainton and Seaham Railway - Framwellgate Branch, Derwent Valley Railway, Teams Wagonway, Ellemore Branch, Harton Colliery Railway, Dunston Staithes Branch, Blaydon Main Wagonway, Gosforth Loop and Coxlodge Colliery.

Closed railway stations in Tyne and Wear

All 103 closed and former stations in Tyne and Wear, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Tyne and Wear

8 stations in Tyne and Wear still have a train service. The busiest are Newcastle (10.5 million a year), Sunderland (709,098 a year), MetroCentre (632,322 a year), Blaydon (69,496 a year) and Manors (63,914 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

County Durham and Northumberland.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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