Wansbeck Road Metro station
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| Wansbeck Road Metro station, entrance to the platform for trains towards Airport | |
| Location | |
| Place | Regent Farm, Gosforth |
| Local authority | Newcastle |
| Fare zone information | |
| Network Zone | 17 |
| Metro Zone | B |
| Operations | |
| Platforms | 2 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1981-05-10 |
| Tyne and Wear Metro List of Tyne and Wear Metro stations |
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Wansbeck Road is one of the stations in Newcastle upon Tyne, on the Green Line of the Tyne and Wear Metro, which opened 10 May 1981. It is built on an embankment above Wansbeck Road, which is the border of the West Gosforth and Fawdon wards. A second concrete span was added to the original single-track bridge in 1978-1979 as the Metro was being built. The platforms are on opposite sides of the road.
The line was originally part of the Ponteland Railway, opened in 1905[1], and the station is close to the point at which it crossed over the now-dismantled Fawdon Waggonway. The bridge where it did so, west of the station, is still in use as a pedestrian underpass.
[edit] References
- ^ Ponteland Light Railway & Darras Hall Branch. Northumbrian Railways. Retrieved on 2008-04-26.
[edit] External links
- Train times and station information for Wansbeck Road Metro station from Nexus
- Wansbeck Road Metro station is at coordinates Coordinates:
| Preceding station |  Tyne and Wear Metro |
Following station | ||
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toward Airport
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Green line |
toward South Hylton
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