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I lived in the station house from 1952 to 1958. There was no longer a station master there, but my father worked for the railway at Newcastle Central Station. The house was demolished subsequently. I could eat my breakfast, see the train coming and rush out to catch it to Jesmond, where I went to school. The layout was strange. There was only one indoor bathroom on the first floor and you had to go through a bedroom to get to it. There was an outdoor (unheated) toilet. It had a small walled in garden at the back which was useless for growing anything but rhubarb, which grew in abundance. When shunting operations were in progress in the coal yard, the noise was quite significant and coal dust got in everywhere. '