By 1.1.1856 (Bradshaw) but shown on Macaulay’s Railway Map 1851                              

Immediately north-east of Heaton Road bridge

North Eastern Railway (York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway, if opened prior to 31.7.1854)

1.4.1887  (Goods facilities are believed not to have been provided)

Demolished - the station was demolished immediately after closure to allow for the widening of the line and the building of the second station which overlapped the first site.

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Notes: The first Heaton station stood in a cutting on the double track shared by the East Coast main line and the Newcastle & North Shields route. There were two platforms approximately 100 yd in length. The principal building stood on the down (NW) platform, facing a smaller building on the up platform.  When it opened the station stood in a rural location, the nearest village being Byker Hill, about ¼ mile to the east, but during the later decades of the 19th century the terraces of the residential suburb of Heaton began to fill the fields on both sides of the railway. Although the NER authorized a new station in 1861 the first station was not replaced until 1887 when the track was quadrupled between Manors and Heaton Junction, and the second station was constructed on an adjacent site to the west of Heaton Road. The first station was presumably erased by the widening works.

Sources:

• Fawcett, Bill  A History of North Eastern Railway Architecture Vol 2   (Pub: North      
                      Eastern Railway Association 2003)
• Quick M E     Railway Passenger Stations  (Pub: RCHS 2000)
• Hoole, Ken Railway Stations of the North East(Pub:David & Charles 1985)
• Ordnance Survey 1: 2 500 plan surveyed 1858-9. Reprinted by Alan Godfrey 1989.

Further reading: Young, Alan   Suburban Railways of Tyneside (Pub: Martin Bairstow 1999). Young, Alan   Railways of Northumberland (Pub: Martin Bairstow 2003).

See also: Heaton (2nd site)