Newcastle climbed further away from the Premier League relegation zone with a third consecutive victory and their first at Turf Moor in more than 40 years.
Federico Fernandez scored the opener in the 2-1 victory in only the fourth minute via a big deflection off Ben Mee and Ciaran Clark, in for the injured Paul Dummett, made it two 19 minutes later.
Burnley pulled one back through a fine header from Sam Vokes five minutes before the break but were unable to find an equaliser and Sean Dyche's side remain just above the bottom three.
Newcastle would have won by more but for an extraordinary miss from Matt Ritchie while Joselu hit a post. PA
Welcome
Good evening and welcome to The Independent's live coverage of the big one...Burnley vs Newcastle!
Kick-off at Turf Moor is at 8pm GMT and we'll be bringing you all the build-up, starting with team news at 7pm.
Dyche hopes Burnley can continue improvement against Newcastle
Sean Dyche hopes Burnley can continue the improvement they showed against Leicester before the international break when they resume their campaign against Newcastle.
The Clarets put a three-game losing run, during which they conceded 13 goals, behind them by holding the Foxes to a goalless draw on an emotional afternoon as the King Power Stadium remembered late Leicester owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
Dyche said: "I thought the structure of the side was better. I thought it looked more like what we look like on a consistent level of performance. There's still more to come.
"I think we showed a lot of signs of continued belief in the growth, and literal growth in performances, last season, that's stuttered a bit at the beginning of this season, for many different reasons I feel.
"We know where the team is statistically and we know that still needs adjusting but, for the last number of weeks, we are showing signs of getting back to where we want to be. We know we still need to do more on the offensive side." (PA)
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Team news
Kick-off delayed
News just coming in that the match has been delayed by 30 minutes after a medical emergency in the tunnel. It is understood that the person involved is not on either of the playing or backroom staff at either club, and has been taken to hospital while conscious. It means the match will kick-off at 8.30pm.
Here we go then. Carragher and Ginola have done their best to fill this unexpected delay in the Sky Sports studio, but they can finally put their feet up: the players are in the tunnel and ready to go.
3 min: Almost an early error by Dubravka who just gets his pass away as Chris Wood tried to shut him down. Newcastle steam up the other end and earn a corner.
11 min: Burnley are struggling to make any inroads in these early stages. Newcastle have started with a high-energy press as soon as the home side encroach into their half, though they may not be able to keep this up all evening, you suspect.
15 min: Jack Cork is caught by Diame who might have seen a booking on another day, but gets away with a ticking off.
22 min: Wood crashes a long-range shot which seems to catch Dubravka off-guard; the goalkeeper stops the powerful moving effort somewhere around the chin/neck. At the other end Newcastle win another corner, which is cleared at the near post by Robbie Brady.
Federico Fernandez celebrates Newcastle's opener:
36 min: Burnley have been enjoying plenty of the ball but they are struggling to find a way through Newcastle's three big centre-halves. You have to credit Rafa Benitez to some extent here, who has set Newcastle up to be incredibly difficult to beat with crosses, and Burnley are failing to come up with an alternative plan of attack.
45 min: A brilliant save by Dubravka! Vokes heads down for his strike partner and Wood clatters a shot towards goal, which is well pushed away by the Newcastle keeper.
We are back under way for the second half, and so far the most exciting action has been the referee requiring a change of GLT watch.
50 min: An amazing miss by Matt Ritchie... He's four yards out, unchallenged, goal gaping, and smashes wide! Incredible.
