St. Anthonys was a railway station on the Riverside Branch, which ran between Byker and Willington Quay.
The branch line, which was designed to more closely follow the shoreline of the Tyne, serving the rapidly developing industries and communities, was authorised in 1871.
It was built along a route "that consisted for the most part of tunnels, bridges, cuttings, retaining-walls, and embankments".
[4] The delay in opening the line reflected the scale of the engineering works required to build the many tunnels, cuttings and retaining walls.
In the late 1940s, passenger services on the branch were reduced to peak hours only, catering primarily for commuter traffic from the shipyards along the River Tyne.