Logged Visits:

22nd Jan 2024  13:11  by NJM

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 3/10

I'd tried, and failed, to spot this back in July 2023 but an appointment at the RVI Eye Clinic today gave me another opportunity and this time I got it. The error of margin as to where to stand outside the RVI is just a few centimetres either way, I'm tempted to paint a big 'X' on the spot to help future Trig 'Spotters'. Long lens camera would have been useful too...

View South East
View South East Zoomed in with a i-Phone, hence poor picture quality.

27th Feb 2022  12:45  by Mickandkim

Gridref: NZ 24600 65000   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Hard to see but from yellow bin just possible

20th Dec 2021  00:00  by Axe Edge

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After the gloom of trudging along Wades Military Road yesterday, I decided to finish the HWP at Newcastle train station (started at Carlisle train station). Following previous advice, I went to the 7th floor of the multistorey car park for a perfect view of the station on the Bedson building. Visited 4 in Newcastle and offered to the people who made the HWP possible.

1st Jun 2021  09:35  by jonglew

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NCAS installed 3 Mar 2009, replacing previous Newcastle active NEWC which was installed 2 Jan 2000 and destroyed 3 Mar 2009, location unknown. Located on the Bedson Building; a bit tricky to spot, RVI parking area at road level provides a glimpse, despite a massive mobile medical walk-in trailer being at an awkward spot. From previous logs the multi-storey car park gives a better view, likely from where I was parked on the 7th floor... should have read all the logs before visiting! Standard Leica A20 dome.

Newcastle Active Stn - viewed from near entrance to RVI. TP7287 - Bedson Bldg on right, Armstrong Bldg on left. AS nestling between them.©jonglew
Newcastle Active Stn TP7287©jonglew
Newcastle Active Stn - best shot available from ground level. TP7287©jonglew

5th Dec 2020  20:40  by monkey_scout

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Followed Analoguesat's comments below. Couldn't see it, stood next to the salt bin and boom there it was.

Active Station Newcastle

14th Sep 2019  11:50  by Analoguesat

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Couldnt see it from the road as the trees were blocking the view. However if you go and stand next to the salt bin at the entrance to the new wing of the RVI across the road its easy to see.

22nd Jul 2019  21:55  by Ant1974

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

13th May 2019  15:30  by rupertal

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

8th Sep 2018  13:26  by Earby Rambler

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Visited with P61.

View from hospital car park.
Close up view.

8th Sep 2018  13:26  by painterman61

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Seen from the children's hospital car park

peeping up ©painterman61

7th Jul 2018  12:00  by dugswell2

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

En route home from a week based at Alnmouth.

10th Mar 2018  12:30  by Wubbleyew

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

Missed this one yesterday so returned today, but couldn't spot it from ground level. Followed Ted's lead, and jogged up to the top of the Children's Hospital car park where it can be easily seen. Then off to St James Park for my first visit: NUFC 3-0 Saints, sitting in the highest away-end in the land. Whenever there was a lull in the game, there was a great view to be had of the city despite the 'fog on the Tyne' rolling in. Pity that my team didn't turn up, but an otherwise enjoyable few days in Newcastle.

11th May 2017  10:30  by jlc

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Unreachable but visible  Score: 5/10

went straight to the bins, perfect vantage spot

12th Mar 2016  09:27  by peregrinus

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Found teds ground level viewpoint which is at nz 24571 65111, next to recycling bins by parking area, briefly borrowed an on street parking spot

2nd May 2015  17:00  by ted

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The active station is where the OS says it is, on the roof of the Bedson building. The dome is just visible at ground level from across the road but a much better view is obtained by sneaking up to the top level of the hospital's multi-storey car park.

Newcastle Active Station site from ground level
Newcastle Active Station detail from ground level
Newcastle Active Station site from top of car park
Newcastle Active Station detail from top of car park

25th Mar 2015  00:00  by Dumfriesmike

Gridref: NZ 24636 65045   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 5/10

30th Jan 2015  13:09  by trigging on an island

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Through luck as much as anything else I managed to spot the same item that Griemeister has previously logged.

Newcastle active station?

17th Jun 2014  12:58  by Particle

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

17th Jul 2013  16:31  by agentmancuso

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Inaccessible  Score: 5/10

Up there somewhere!

31st Jul 2012  18:53  by fasgadh

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 2/10

I did see a leica like object on a building a couple of hundred metres away, but nothing visible at this location.

24th Mar 2012  11:30  by Border Peat

Gridref: NZ 24639 65012   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 2/10

AS others looked around building nothing

19th Mar 2009  09:18  by lonesome_cowboy_burt

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 5/10

Nothing to be seen from ground level. As I was attending a course in the Herschel Building, I took a shot of the roof from the staircase at the NW end of Herschel - nothing visible that I can see.

View from Herschel Building towards Bedson Building ©lonesome_cowboy_burt

6th Jul 2008  16:00  by jameswameek

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Couldn't see this one - dissapointing but you need a helicopter I think!

11th Jun 2006  10:00  by MAC.HAWK

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Walked around the building from near and far but couldn't see any signs of anything. I'm guessing whatever is there is in the centre of the roof and you need far more height than is available from ground level - it was Sunday today so I was unable to ask anyone regarding it's prescence. If one of the Newky Uni students falls onto this website maybe they can view it from one of the taller adjacent buildings and fill us in.

11th Jun 2006  10:00  by SUE-C

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13th Dec 1999  11:55  by TrigJS

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Newcastle University Department of Geomatics (Survey) had various antennas on the roof of the Bedson Building in 1999, One of these joined the OS active station network (OS Net) in 2000. This active station shares the same location as passive station TP25816 Bedson.

TP7287 Bedson Building antennas in December 1999.