The Riverside Branch was a 6.5-mile (10.5 km) North Eastern Railway built double track branch railway line in Northumberland, England, that ran from Riverside Junction between Manors and Heaton stations via seven intermediate stations to Percy Main junction between Howdon and Percy Main.
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Opening
Authorised in 1871 the line was built to provide a passenger services to the communities to the north of the River Tyne along a route 'the most part of tunnels, bridges, cuttings, retaining-walls, and embankments'. The line opened on 1 May 1879.
Closure
The line closed to passengers on 23 July 1973, and to goods in stages, Carville Swan Hunter Siding to Percy Main West Junction in 1978, St Peters Shepherds Scrap Siding to Carville Swan Hunter Siding in 1987, and Riverside Junction to St Peters Shepherds Scrap Siding the next year.