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Esso - Carville Service Station, Hadrian Road, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear NE28 6HG

This is a bit scruffy for an Esso site, panel missing from the canopy edge. Presumably only a temporary situation. This was a Total and then Gulf site before changing to Esso around two years ago. Apparently there was a railway station right adjacent to the garage here once, called Carville, and as a result a few photos exist of this place a bit further back in time, the "railway historians" having conveniently taken images which show the garage, if only at distance. Here we can see it as a Total from 2012 if you scroll down to the very end of the article

disused-stations.org.uk/c/carville/index.shtml

There's also a photo of it as a Gulf in this article.

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/lost-tyneside-railwa...

Of course both eras can also be seen on Streetview.

www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.989792,-1.527996,3a,75y,126.09h...

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Uploaded on July 29, 2022
Taken on June 19, 2022