Tynemouth Station Main And Subsidiary Buildings With Canopies And Footbridge

Tynemouth Station is a railway station built around 1882 by William Bell of the North Eastern Railway Company. It features red brick construction with stone dressings and slate roofs that have iron cresting along the principal ridges, all designed in a Gothic style.

The passenger buildings, which face Station Terrace, create a symmetrical arrangement and are single-storey with a total of 21 bays. The central block includes a central entry with a depressed arch and four pairs of round-headed windows, each with a central stone mullion topped with foliated caps and dripmould terminals. There are impost and cill bands, along with brackets supporting the eaves. The side wings contain three single windows of a similar design, leading up to a gabled section with stone coping and kneelers. Above two single windows flanking a panelled door is a circular window. The station is also adorned with tall polygonal chimney stacks.

Inside the passenger concourse, there is a ceramic tile map of the region. The buildings on Birtley Road are simpler in design, featuring a two-storey tower that once housed the engine house and accumulator.

A standout feature of the station is the interior ironwork of the platform canopies and footbridge, which is designed in an exuberant style suitable for a seaside resort. The arched canopies stretch for about 200 yards and include ornamental spandrels and apexes, supported by non-classical columns with foliated capitals.

Tynemouth Station is recognized in Gordon Biddle's "Victorian Stations" and in David Lloyd and Donald Insall's "Railway Station Architecture" as a particularly fine, large-scale 'excursion' railway station designed by the notable architect William Bell.