Before it became a busy station on the Tyne and Wear Metro, for decades Pelaw operated as a railway station.
It was one of the many stops on the the old suburban rail lines, north and south of the Tyne, that Metro adapted for its new rapid transit system in the late 1970s and early '80s.
Pelaw railway station opened back in 1843. It underwent changes in 1850 and 1857 - and again in 1896 as Pelaw became home to the Co-operative Wholesale Society at the turn of the 20th century.
