Newcastle Central Station: A Journey through Time

See Newcastle as never before! All credit to the photographers/ people involved. EDIT a more recent version of this film • Newcastle: Central Sta...

[@HSMiyamoto]

It is really amazing how complicated the pointwork at Newcastle used to be compared to its present state.

[@chrisdawson6156]

Yeah I agree do you live in Newcastle

[@ShaunL]

Brilliant idea, very well executed. I find these really captivating, especially the ones of places and subjects I know. From the transitions to the sound effects and the choice of music - it really draws you in. 👍🏻

[@JamesFoxTimeTravelArtist]

Thanks Shaun! This video is one of my early projects I have since put out many more - here is one recent example of Newcastle: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqndnIaAgtusjNE

[@alanhuntley]

Excellent, I remember from 1966-68 when I traveled by train from South Shields to Newcastle daily for work and was always amazed at the crossings.

[@TheAmir259]

Now it's simplified, no longer unique but also less complicated.

[@gmfinc18]

There are less than half the lines and platforms, it's easy to simplify when there is less to manage.

[@ccityplanner1217]

Then they converted to diesel right before the oil crisis. Oopsy!

[@letraindejardin]

Fabuleux ! Mille mercis pour ce montage merveilleux. Même au pays du chemin de fer, les rails ont laissé la place aux automobiles... Et ces aiguillages aux courbes élégantes qu'on imagine commandés par autant d'aiguilleurs arc-boutés sur les leviers... Disparus ! Le temps est un ogre jamais rassasié !

[@Transport-UK]

I'd give this 10 thumbs ups if I could.

[@gabrielpearlharborrubio8281]

TransportFanUK ok

[@wilhelmtauber836]

What a superb way to travel through time; well done, sir! It really brings home the fact that the mainline railways of Britain were largely untouched until the drastic changes from the late 1980's onwards whilst preparing for privatization when the engineers swept away all that wasn't vital to the electric age. How soleless the modern images are by comparison.

[@NasserAlazzawiTV]

I felt that too

[@markruddle5136]

The remnants of the buildings bottom right, show how the railways have decreased from their peak in the early to mid 20th century, to where they are now. The buildings were bustling busy places once, reliant on the railways industry. No longer.

[@EASYTIGER10]

Before Covid hit, railway usage in the UK was considerably higher than it was in the mid to late 20th century

[@mscangliarail]

Great to see the Central Station over the years see the diamond xings again takes me back to when i worked with the Signal Engineers in the 60,s in the Central Station. Thanks for sharing a great pieice of history and Engineering .Mike

[@spompey]

A brilliant piece of work, most stunning changes, incidentally loved the music ........Mark

[@daveelliott5855]

Wonderful pictoral video of my favourite station, always remember my dad showing and telling all about the famous diamond crossing as a lad and just marvelling at the shear complexities of them, a marvel of what this country could achieve, and also the the unforgivable and sad downgrading of our wonderful railway system, thanks to people like yourself and the photographers for keeping a very important part of our history alive

[@RazordraacGaming]

A lot of the "downgrading" was for good purpose, as sad as it is. The much lower maintenance with the new points over the diamond crossing would have been safer and cheaper. Sorry to be that guy but the new system was put here for a reason.

[@davidcoleman6032]

Truly awesome! That track layout was so complex years ago, but looking at the area again now, I can't imagine how it all fitted in unless some bridging has been demolished.

[@joachimwelsch8989]

This is fantastic, amazing, I feel great respect for the work, the thinkers, inventors, engineers, the workers and the photographers of this presentation!

[@kanel_8196]

Excelent! I love Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

A great film, and I was glad to see the third-rail electrification of the suburban lines shown in the pictures circa 1960.

[@lewisner]

One of the nice features of the station was that the 1959 signalbox was at the end of the footbridge so you could actually see your train approaching on the track diagram.

[@Shubhamnarulaa]

Stunning. One cant resist keep watching such stuff. It keeps my attention. Well made. 100 times thumbs up.

[@sueruck7172]

Liked it the way it was. Thank you so much, best thing I have ever seen and the music perfect. This should win multiple awards, have you entered anything. You should. THANK YOU

[@grahamball364]

What can I say ,great video work and thank you for letting us see the past .Graham.

[@tonylancaster8704]

This is first class very clever and very well made.

[@Steve-qz4vt]

Very clever the way this has been done, remember the complex diamond crossings in the 60s when train spotting.

[@ZetanCrisp]

That was excellent, it reminds me of the changing view out of the conservatory window in the original Time Machine movie!

[@SantaFeAllTheWay]

Actually, it is a work of inspired genius. Bravo!

[@sidirodromeas]

Excellent video!!! My most beautiful station in England!!! Thanks for making and sharing this history!!!

[@HROM1908]

I was amazed by the simplification of the track work over time. Well done.

[@Glenn1967ful]

I can still remember the platforms where the car park is now for local trains. I can remember going through a barrier to catch the train to North Shields in the seventies and then the train going through a complicated set of points and then to a much bigger Manors station. All gone now and there's only one unstaffed platform at Manors.

[@sundayakpan2663]

Great old Train videos for this timeline from present to past.

[@Адриэн]

Why the old images look better than of now?

[@cemops8660]

they are probably more crisp because older cameras had less detail and no colours

[@Swansniff2]

さくら more likely that a lot of the modern pictures seems to be taken by crappy digital cameras such as web cams that are used to monitor for example weather. the old ones used film stock which is pretty high res even for 8mm film. Smack up a good dslr or even phone camera and modern tech wins.

[@cherylgregory4086]

Because the old pictures have steam engines instead of dirty diesels

[@amitavamanna2696]

Imagine life back then-sweet in every home and heart. Why does that tear me up in sadness?

[@georgetang5383]

This Is a Nice Music

[@IroncladInSteam4007]

WOAH THE CAR PARK USED TO BE PLATFORMS!!?

[@Simon-eu2hz]

That's the case with most stations in Britain.

[@dvferyance]

@@Simon-eu2hz It appears it was removed sometime in the 80's.

[@gavinreid8937]

another minor shock is the building on the edge of the car park suddenly turn into flats.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Yes indeed, and you will have noticed the third-rail electrification in the 1960's. The Tyne Loop was de-electrified and the EMU's transferred to the Southern Region, where they survived for many years. They were classified 2EPB.

[@Mrmakeyoumad]

@@dvferyance the platforms were removed in 1987-1988

[@NasserAlazzawiTV]

Really nice work. I grew up liking the trains as a kid in the 90s when the intercity 225s became an exciting thing and only just found out how complicated the points system used to be. I had no idea the car park used to be platforms!

[@TornadoTrick]

That photo from 1992 is ahead of its time

[@XleeHS]

Man, i wish I could go back in time and witness that yard at its finest. Outstanding video!

[@peterwest6827]

Brilliant absolutely brilliant very well done and eye opening seeing all the changes to the track layout.

[@gregrsvr3947]

A superb piece of work

[@johnstubbington5163]

I watch quite a bit of You Tube. This piece of film is very unique and totally amazing how it has been compiled!! How do people think up this type of thing!! Excellent and of course, well done... John

[@jamesfox2225]

Thank you John. I am a bit late in updating my youtube channel - there are more recent films on my fb page: facebook.com/timetravelimages. Best. James

[@stevesullivan233]

What a video, one of the best videos I have ever watched. Brings back a few memories.

[@Brijesht86]

Amazing video.. what a time travel!! Brilliant work!!👌👌

[@johnmehaffey9953]

First class, my mum comes from ashington and when we went to visit nan, we always to the ferry from Ireland and got the train to Newcastle and the lovely curved platform always impressed me

[@johnjeanb]

Superb video on a time lapse in Newcastle station: a tale of new technology and reduced traffic in trains perhaps.

[@jennytalia226]

Remember the model railway they had running around the Xmas tree, you put a penny in the slot to start an engine off on its journey, also the big red machine that stamped out your name onto a metal strip , and the Record your own voice machine ! Brilliant !

[@nigeljohnson8022]

Amazing video thanks for sharing it.

[@siddywiddyb]

I had a book when i was a kid, that had a before and after picture of this incredible track layout! Great edit thank you so much!!

[@Stevenhamer82]

a delightful video. that was amazing

[@roderickjoyce6716]

My local station! I love this; thank you.

[@flippop101]

This is a superb film of a classic location! Thank you!

[@ABNJIM10]

What a wonderful video. Thank you for creating this.

[@kohlemainen]

Beautiful. And wonderful music !

[@frenchsteam7356]

I worked in the SMO at Newcastle in 1966 -changes were starting then -electrics going for a start. Old wooden buildings throughout the station.

[@Kev5565]

I usually don't like youtube being used for slide shows but this is way better, well made and the music fits so well. I know i'm late but thankyou for this interesting video. I have that old photo of the worlds largest crossing on my work pc, the track men back then had a nightmare I bet when they saw the plans for that lot lol.

[@zak6889]

This is fuckin mint tbh, t see how much this fuckin place has changed is outstanding. Think about living back then is unbelievable and how much we’ve changed is so like amazing

[@sirjohng1]

What can one say but WOW perhaps? Really interesting and thanks for who took the trouble to do this.

[@riesenflugzeug]

_ahhhhhh, the ages of steamies. And TTTE characters._

[@imcadam121]

A superb time & motion study.

[@kevinosullivan7121]

Great. A lot of work went into this.

[@TheTraveller747]

i always wish to born in 1900....amazing photographs

[@daciatravel.647]

Nagyon jó videó Gratulálok! Magyarországról.

[@Keith19563]

Lovely presentation, well done.

[@breeze1472]

What a brilliant clip of timeline on the railways.i wonder if anyone else has done this near their hometown? Also shame to see those branch lines turned into car parks.thank you for posting

[@tedygarzanti08046561TEDNORM]

Amazing!!! ...Fabulous, fantastic video.

[@KingLizard84T]

Absolutely amazing!

[@logotrikes]

Brilliant...!!!

[@whostolemysocks2798]

So the station was getting bigger and bigger and then after 1970s it got smaller and now its a tiny station then in the 70s

[@roderickjoyce6716]

It got bigger again; the metro has two platforms which you can't see as they are underground beneath the north (Neville Street) side of the main station, and there is a new island platform - numbered 5 to 8 - built along and half out of the south side of the station. The entrance to platforms 7 and 8 is an opening through the south wall, which is decorated like a Roman doorway and an inscription about Hadrian's Wall - Gateway to the Roman Empire. The station is probably the busiest it has ever been, at least as far as passenger numbers are concerned - freight trains are pretty infrequent nowadays.

[@dancrouch2479]

Yeah that's what I was thinking I thought it was ever one was using cars as transport.

[@michaeldelisieux5252]

A work of art! Cheers!

[@baqarrizvi853]

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[@Starkid1236offical]

Fantastic !

[@7anthillmob]

Thoroughly enjoyed that, thanks.

[@jimward8095]

Wow..everything back then looked so busy.They have pruned back so much today...a mere shadow of its former life ..such a shame.

[@dambuster6387]

1920 Parcel department right top of picture. There is a sight called Old maps on line co.uk maps from 1850 on wards showing the development of the railways its very well detailed giving track lay out as it changes through time, Fascinating stuff.

[@TravellerFair]

Amazing! Thank You.

[@KenwayJoel]

That was amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed that. 🙂

[@Finnertoncentralmodelrailway]

I new Newcastle station as one of the most complete stations ever now almost unrecognizable

[@muckle8]

Fantastic - So where did the 2 lines go to once that were took up between 1983 and 1990 , what branch?

[@mediacityavid]

Great idea. Shame the earliest photos don't feature trains ? I thought the past had more regularity

[@greghuff6612]

Great footage! Neat to watch the changes.

[@Peter-hw6tk]

Bravo, absolute class

[@hedgehog3900]

Superb production from a non train man.

[@Aenopia]

The image for 2005 isn't from 2005- Arriva Cross COuntry started operating in 2007 and there were no Northern Rail liveried units until about 2007 as well.

[@mike-myke22]

Excellent 👍

[@britanniafirst1254]

Very clever. You managed to cover my footplate career from 1978 to 2016.

[@Castlebridge-00]

That was just great. Thanks.

[@willmoffat1931]

Amazing!! Very interesting 😀😀🤔🤔

[@kintianmoyo]

A fantastic time travel ....

[@ozyankee4403]

I really enjoyed that... thank you

[@CODHELPUS]

Brilliantly done my friend, loved it !

[@dolape7002]

CONGRATULATIONS!!! VERY BUT VERY NICE

[@snowmageddon1]

Stunning!

[@alexpiper9475]

thank you! Really like time-line presintation. Do you plan to do other locations?

[@cymonalex]

Class ! Great work James

[@carlmaster9690]

Its odd to see the large portion of portion of the station at the far right of the screen suddenly disappear and be replaced by a large car park.

[@bertiewooster3326]

Look at yard in the bottom centre also nice new Ford Capri !

[@stamrly418]

Ouch memories and a awesome way of recording and showing the famous diamond. Well done no very well done.

[@jonsmith8582]

Very well done video , top work !

[@karlpremier7851]

Amazing, well put together👍

[@deborahwhite6580]

Really enjoyed this.

[@tims6845]

Спасибо! Интересно! Thank you! Interesting!

[@leonperry123]

How much track and points in the 1960? I had to pause and have a good look.

[@daryl2510]

I'm from the East Midlands - but that is lovely photography and film-reel showing the ever-changing and sadly the decline of our beloved railway system throughout the decades - well done!

[@Peter-hw6tk]

Still the most beautiful train shed In the world. In the best city in the world

[@McRocket]

Wow...mega impressive video, IMO.

[@PaulBriden]

Brilliant, why did they remove the right hand side of the station for a car park ?.

[@yurip6446]

I was a bit confused until I realised this is Newcastle in the UK, not Newcastle in Australia. Weird how KZbin recommended this amongst dozens of Sydney trains videos haha.