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Airport Metro Station


Airport is as station of the Tyne and Wear Metro; it is the terminus at the north end of the Green Line, which runs from Newcastle Airport to South Hylton in Sunderland. The metro station is connected to the airport via a covered walkway. The station was opened on the 17th of November, 1991, when the metro was extended from Bank Foot to the airport.

Airport is a terminus station of the Green line of the Tyne and Wear Metro that serves Newcastle Airport, Newcastle upon Tyne. The station's platforms and ticket hall are situated a short distance south of the airport's terminal building, with a covered walkway running between them.

History

The Airport extension, encompassing both Airport station and the intermediate Callerton Parkway station, was opened on 17 November 1991, having cost £12 million to construct. Prior to this date the Metro's Green line terminated 2 miles to the south-east at Bank Foot, with passengers heading to the airport having to alight there and take the M77 shuttle bus to the airport. The vast majority of the route of the extension was already in place, having been opened in 1905 as part of the Ponteland and Darras Hall Branch of the North Eastern Railway. Although the line no longer reached Ponteland or Darras Hall, enough of it remained that building the extension only required around 0.2 miles of new right-of-way.

In 2014 a survey conducted by the Consumers Association found that the Metro service from the Airport was one of the highest rated airport rail links in the country for customer satisfaction. Only the Intercity train link to Birmingham International Airport was rated higher.

Services

Services towards South Hylton via Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland city centres operate every 12 minutes during the daytime and every 15 minutes during the evening and on Sundays, with trains taking around 24 minutes to reach central Newcastle and 55 minutes to reach Sunderland station.

Services commence at 05:37 on weekdays, with later starts on Saturday and Sunday. The last service to run the full length of the Green line to South Hylton departs at 22:39; the next train travels to Sunderland and the one after that terminates at Pelaw. Additional trains depart until 00:01, only taking passengers as far as Regent Centre before continuing empty to the Metro depot.

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Metro Station at Newcastle Airport, 16th February 2006.

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