(12 Sep 2013, 8:42 pm)gtomlinson wrote It was demolished in the 70s. Cowen's businesses supported the railway but I don't think he ever owned it, he owned a branch line up to his brickworks (I think) The current building is owned and operated by Northern Trains on behalf of Network Rail

A line ran up Blaydon Burn to service the Cowen's Brickworks, the Ottoville Cokeworks and Bessie Pit.

Blaydon Station was under threat of closure in the 1960s, but it was reprieved as Barbara Castle decided that a town the size of Blaydon ought to have a railway station.