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Blyth railway station was situated in Blyth, Northumberland on the North Eastern Railway Blyth Branch line.[1] The railway into Blyth was opened on 3 March 1847,[2] and the first station was at Croft Street (now King Street).[3] On 1 May 1867, a new station was opened to replace the original station.[4] It was at the north end of Turner Street[1] (now part of Regent Street) on the site now occupied by Morrisons supermarket and the Community Hospital. By the 1890s, there had been an increase in goods and passenger traffic,[5] and a new station was needed. Plans were originally submitted to build a new station on newly reclaimed land on Bridge Street, between Union Street and Beaconsfield Street, but these were turned down after an objection from the neighbouring Thomas Knight Memorial Hospital, on the grounds of noise.[6] The existing station was rebuilt between 1894 and 1896,[7] at a cost of £20,000; most of the construction by J & W Simpson of Blyth.[5] Despite being situated adjacent to a through line, the station was a terminus. It faced onto Turner Street and had a single island platform projecting from the rear which was numbered 1–7.[5] To the west stood the South Blyth loco sheds, first built in 1879,[8] and to the north passed the coal lines leading to the staiths.[9] It was closed in 1964[1] following the Beeching Report, the last passenger train departing on 12 August of that year.[10] The station buildings stood derelict until they were demolished in 1972.[7] Today, nothing remains of the station itself or the loco sheds, although the Station Master's house still stands at Delaval Terrace.
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- Balmer, Bob [1997] (2002). Images of England: Blyth, 3rd edition, Tempus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-0773-9.
- Balmer, Bob; Smith, Gordon [2004]. Images of England: Blyth volume II. Tempus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-3349-3.
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