Backworth railway station

Opened by the North Eastern Railway, then joining the London and North Eastern Railway, the station passed to the North Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The line had been electrified (as the Tyneside Electric) by the North Eastern Railway in 1904 to fight competition from the newly built electric tramways, but was de-electrified in the 1960s.

The station was then closed by the British Railways Board to enable the construction of the Tyne and Wear Metro, but was not re-opened as part of that system. Initially Shiremoor was the nearest metro station to the site until the 2005 opening of Northumberland Park.

The closest station to Backworth today is Northumberland Park on the Tyne & Wear Metro, located a short distance to the south east of the original station site. It is around a twenty-minute walk from the centre of the village.

• R.V.J. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1 The halt is pictured on page 23.
• A. Jowett (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing. ISBN 0-906899-99-0

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Backworth railway station.

• Backworth on navigable 1946 O. S. map
• "RAILSCOT Blyth and Tyne Railway".

55°02′02″N 1°31′05″W / 55.034°N 1.518°W / 55.034; -1.518