the route of the Junction canal between King Street and Queen Street
Station Walks is to the right behind the trees

looking from Station Walks down to where the Junction Canal ran  
the building in the gap in the trees is the Borough Arms Hotel on King Street.

- compare this 2008 photo with the 1964 photos below, showing the railway station -

Newcastle railway station - situated off King street

30 May 1964
Newcastle railway station was situated off King street, across from the Borough Arms Hotel, as this photograph clearly shows.

The Borough Arms Hotel building can be seen near the centre of the photograph, with Water Street going down its right hand side. The line, which originally went from Stoke to Newcastle was opened in 1852, with an extension to Market Drayton in 1870.

The line seen here going off to the right went down to the goods yard located on Water Street. The railway line was closed in 1965 and the cuttings filled in to form Station Walks.

© Borough Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme (Staffordshire Past Tracks)
 

Borough Arms Hotel - 2008

Borough Arms Hotel - (c)1965

1965 - 1968 (c.)
The site of Newcastle railway station after demolition, looking towards the Borough Arms Hotel.

© Borough Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme (Staffordshire Past Tracks)
 

Frontage of Newcastle railway station

1901 - 1906 (c.)
Newcastle railway station situated off King street, across from the Borough Arms Hotel.  Here the station is seen decorated ready for a visit from Edward VII.

© Borough Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme (Staffordshire Past Tracks)
 

postcard of Newcastle railway station in 1906

The ramp, seen on the right hand side of this photograph, went to the street and booking office. A steam train can just be seen leaving the station.
 

© Borough Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme (Staffordshire Past Tracks)