Manors Railway Station, Newcastle

[PinzaC55]

Oh no! It was well heavy, besides I have never been into collecting stuff from north of the Tyne - I am a Mackem you see

[52D]

Im a proud makem as well but it does not prevent me from looking at rail history, never mind, back to the subject look here for a link to take you to a 1902 accident at Manors.
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[lar1976]

Just a quick post about Manors as I always had a fascination with this building when being driven past it, this was in the mid 80's and the building was still standing, well the entrance which could be seen on the road going over the tyne, I also remember the single Manors sign still standing on the overgrown platform. I did manage to get my dad to drive over and park in the old station car park and walked along the old track looking through the subway windows set into the platform and seeing the walkways and a few gates, it was strange looking at the iron fencing around the subway steps with the gates padlocked and I believe these were probably whisked off to the Marsden Rattler along with the clock tower?

[pasco]

There was a feature in the Sunderland Echo on Thursday (June 10th), reviewing the Marsden Rattler... there were a couple of pictures, but you can't see much. However, you can make out some iron columnwork, which I suspect may be from Manors...

[Crosslea]

My Dad used to tell a joke which included Manors. It’s not the funniest joke I’ve ever heard, but, as it includes Manors, it can’t be that bad. It doesn’t take a great deal of local knowledge to realise that it doesn’t quite work geographically.

A Geordie was going to the coast for the day. On the way to Newcastle Central station, he bought some fish and chips. The first train to the coast was going via the Riverside line, so he got on board and started to enjoy his meal.

A little way into the journey, he heard the guard shout, “Manners”. Realising that he shouldn’t really be eating smelly food on the train, he put his fish and chips away.

However, a little later, he heard the guard shout, “Eat on”. So he finished his meal and fell asleep.

He was awoken with astonishment when he heard the guard shout, “St.Peter’s”. He thought he died in his sleep and gone to heaven. (He should really have been more astonished that his train had somehow gone from Manors to St.Peter’s via Heaton).

Fed, rested and feeling full of energy, he heard the guard shout, “Walker”. So he got off the train and walked the rest of the way to the coast.

[PinzaC55]

Lol that reminds me of the Two Ronnies sketch where they are train drivers using names of stations in their conversation and first they are talking about their gardens Big Ronnie says "if you put that on your plants they'll get all Bushey and Oxhey" - Little Ronnie" Yeah , Turnham Green that will!".
BR "Your lad, is he still knocking around with the Theydon Bois?" LR "Yeah" BR "they're big aren't they?" LR "Wapping!".

[orlando]

Hi All

I seem to have come to this forum very late! I, like Adam and others, have also had a fascination with Manors from a very young age. Me and my Dad used to go there whilst on our trips to places old and derelict. Places like Redheugh bridge as it was being dismantled, the quayside just as it was beginning to be redeveloped... and Manors.

[orlando]

...Sorry I hit submit too quickly!

We used to explore the deserted platforms and wonder what was beyond the locked up subways. There was always a sense of mystery, and sadness to the place. I'm so glad to have read the memories of someone who worked there - it brings a spirit of life to the place that perhaps subconsciously enhanced the sense of melancholy and dereliction the station's atmosphere later brought to myself and others.

Then one day we visited Manors to discover the station had been completely demolished. It lay empty and derelict for some time until the construction of the business park that now occupies the site. Before construction of that began in around 1990, my dad and I got into the area of the site of station building and some of the platforms that still remained.

We managed to salvage a capital from one of the canopy columns, a fragment from another and some odd nuts and bolts lying around. The site was a complete bomb site - every other salvageable piece of architecture had gone, and I remember feeling very sad. The bits and pieced went into a box and have remained there until I have photographed them tonight and posted them to this site.

I have also over the years acquired some signal box gradients that include Manors, in addition to a plan of the LNER north eastern area tyneside electrified areas sectioning of third rail chart.

All in all I think we could all contribute to a book about Manors - I'm happy to do it!

[third-rail]

...Sorry I hit submit too quickly!

We used to explore the deserted platforms and wonder what was beyond the locked up subways. There was always a sense of mystery, and sadness to the place. I'm so glad to have read the memories of someone who worked there - it brings a spirit of life to the place that perhaps subconsciously enhanced the sense of melancholy and dereliction the station's atmosphere later brought to myself and others.

Then one day we visited Manors to discover the station had been completely demolished. It lay empty and derelict for some time until the construction of the business park that now occupies the site. Before construction of that began in around 1990, my dad and I got into the area of the site of station building and some of the platforms that still remained.

We managed to salvage a capital from one of the canopy columns, a fragment from another and some odd nuts and bolts lying around. The site was a complete bomb site - every other salvageable piece of architecture had gone, and I remember feeling very sad. The bits and pieced went into a box and have remained there until I have photographed them tonight and posted them to this site.

I have also over the years acquired some signal box gradients that include Manors, in addition to a plan of the LNER north eastern area tyneside electrified areas sectioning of third rail chart.

All in all I think we could all contribute to a book about Manors - I'm happy to do it!

that air tank is still standing therelong after the air points where taken out

[PinzaC55]

Great photos Orlando! The area beneath the station in the subways was like a rabbit's warren - very dark and scarey. At the bottom of the stirs from the rush hour exit on platform 7/8 there was a door in peeling BR(NE) blue paint and one day it was standing open so I went in and it was full of large station clocks! I also found a box of signal repeaters presumably from Manors signalbox.There was another room off that one but it had no windows and was pitch black so I chickened out of going in lol.
It's always struck me as curious how that air tank was allowed to remain after the EP points were taken out - I guess they just forgot about it?

[DaveF]

I'll be putting some photos of Manors in the 80s (mainly) on fotopic shortly, in my Northumbrian Gallery - in the next week or two all being well. Together with about 200 images from Newcastle to Morpeth.

Meanwhile here is a sample:

[PinzaC55]

Your photos are stunning quality!Do you have any of Sunderland , my home town and the Sunderland-Penshaw branch? It seems that few people bothered photographing it.

[DaveF]

Hi Pinza,

I've only got a few of Sunderland, all post 1980 and nothing else in the immediate area - I only moved to the NE in 1980.

There are a few if you follow this link (and many other fascinating photos too) :

http://erniesphotos.fotopic.net/

This is a friend's fotopic gallery (or one of them). There are also some shots of Manors in one of the collections in the gallery.

David

[pasco]

Orlando - great pictures! Do you have any more?
Dave F - is there a direct link to your Manors pictures (or at least will there be, when the gallery is complete)?

And I am well up for taking part in writing a book, if it is to be a collective effort....

[DaveF]

Dave F - is there a direct link to your Manors pictures (or at least will there be, when the gallery is complete)?

When I get them done, yes - at the moment I have been asked to work a lot of extra hours which slows down progress!

David