Manors Railway Station, Newcastle

[60041]

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.

If you pm me, I know someone in the Penshaw area who has hundreds of photos of the railways around Sunderland and Washington, taken in the 60's and 70's.

[Irishswissernie]

Several photos on my fotopic site of Manors going back to the 1960's


http://erniesphotos.fotopic.net/c1112676.html

Ernie

[tynesider]

Manors Station Platform 7(South Gosforth Line Junction) looking north east.

Under the footbridge on Platform 6 is the Station Inspectors cabin, the one with all the small windows.

[PinzaC55]

Manors Station Platform 7(South Gosforth Line Junction) looking north east.

Under the footbridge on Platform 6 is the Station Inspectors cabin, the one with all the small windows.

What did he Inspect?

[Phil K]

Sorry for discovering this excellent subject 2 years after, mainly due to the fact I had forgotten i was a member here, and I was actually looking for Manors photos.... but it's an EXCELLENT subject. I remember as a kid actually using this station to go home to Walkergate (I now live near the next station, Wallsend, and actually DRIVE what replaced the trains that used Manors !) and have a lot of admittedly fading memories of the stations. I remember the waiting rooms on the platform being quite big for some reason, and that the platforms north were grotty, due to BR running down the station (they had been since the 60s. BAD management)
My mate took several pictures after they had started pulling down Manors and I have them on my Facebook pages.

[Phil K]

I don't know if any of you guys are members, but there is a facebook group for old Newcastle/Tyneside. It contains pictures (well over a thousand) and there are quite a few rail pics, including some of Manors. Heaton, some of the Riverside route and Central are also featured. But the Manors ones are good.

A link for this would be good. Couldn't find this, meself !

[Bryan]

Manors Station Platform 7(South Gosforth Line Junction) looking north east.

Under the footbridge on Platform 6 is the Station Inspectors cabin, the one with all the small windows.

What did he Inspect?

Stations?

[DaveF]

I have at last posted my photos of Manors, plus about 170 others between Newcastle and Morpeth, mainly in the 80s.

They are in my fotopic gallery at:

http://davesnorthumbrianrailwayarchive.fotopic.net/

David

[limitofshunt]

Wow..... Excellent photos Dave! I'm actually jealous that I was only 7 at the time you took most of those and not into trains at that point! Thanks for sharing those!


Best wishes

Jon

[pasco]

Sorry guys.... there are 2 good fb pages - one is called "pictures of Newcastle and the East End", and another with the same name, but about the West End.

Some good pics on both sites.

[Crosslea]

Looking through my slide collection, I found a great one of an electric unit at platform 8 in 1965. I can't reproduce it as it's copyright by Colour-Rail. Colour-Rail is now under new ownership, but the slide, DE2079, is still available from www.colour-rail.com

[pasco]

Anyone know when the Newcastle model railway society exhibition is, and where?
Saw a flyer for it at the toy fair in Gateshead the other week, but forgot to pick one up....
Cheers guys

[PinzaC55]

Just thought it was worth mentioning there's an excellent article on the Tyneside Electrics in this month's "Backtrack" magazine, with a couple of superb photos of Manors.

[lar1976]

...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!

Following on from this I rmember a camera angle used during a Great North Run which showed the remnants of Manors station, by the time my Father got me to to the station the building had dissapeared but as I've mentioned previously the old double arrow white on red sign with Manors on it was still standing, Don't know what happened to it but surely thats in some ones collection now? It would also appear that the air tank is still standing at the end of the platform. On a similar note does anyone know of any DVD's videos of the North Tyne loop in LNER-BR days?

[PinzaC55]

If you look at one of the shots in the Backtrack article you can see the air tank in 1962.Was it an air tank or a Propane tank for the point heaters?
Re DVD's I am pretty sure at least one (North From Newcastle?) has some film of the Quayside Branch shunters but cannot recall any with actual Loop stations except for Backworth.