Newcastle had the first covered train station in the world (5/12)

Newcastle Central Station is a Grade I listed building and was the first covered train station in the world, and also the first to be designed and built in Britain using curved wrought iron ribs to support an arched roof.

The station was inaugrated by Queen Victoria herself on August 29, 1850, and that day ever since has been a public holiday in Newcastle.

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