page_title: Blaydon railway station
section_title: Services
hierarchical_section_title: Blaydon railway station / Services
caption_attribution_description: English: Blaydon Station. View NW, towards Hexham and Carlisle; ex-NER Newcastle - Carlisle main line. The line (via Scotswood) from Newcastle (Central) is coming in from the right behind the signalbox; the lines in the foreground are the Goods lines from Gateshead via Dunston, which were upgraded from 4/10/82 to form the main line from Newcastle, the line over Scotswood Bridge having been closed. Blaydon station is very different now, having been closed on 3/9/66 while through trains were run via North Wylam instead of Wylam until 11/3/68; it was then rebuilt due to vandalism!
context_page_description: Blaydon railway station is a railway station serving Blaydon in Tyne and Wear, northern England. It is located on the Tyne Valley Line 5 ¹⁄₂ miles west of Newcastle Central and is managed by Northern.
context_section_description: Up until the beginning of December 2013, the service there was infrequent compared to others on the line - three services on Monday to Friday to Hexham and three to Newcastle, whilst on Saturdays there were three to Hexham and two to Newcastle & no service at all on Sundays.
  In the December 2013 timetable change, the station began to receive a much improved service with calls every two hours in each direction (by Middlesbrough - Hexham trains) and extra departures at peak times.  There was also a Sunday service for the first time since the early 1970s. As of May 2018, the station now receives at least an hourly service during the day in each direction, and half hourly calls at peak times.
  The Office of Rail & Road estimates of station usage attributes the sharp rise in passenger numbers as down to the timetabling improvements.
caption: Blaydon railway station in 1965.
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