Wansbeck Road Metro station

Wansbeck Road Metro station

Infobox T&W Metro station
name = Wansbeck Road


caption = Wansbeck Road Metro station, entrance to the platform for trains towards Airport
T&W Zone = 17
Metro Zone = B
locale = Regent Farm, Gosforth
borough = Newcastle
open = 1981-05-10
platform = 2

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 [cite web |url=http://www.northumbrian-railways.co.uk/ponteland.html |title=Ponteland Light Railway & Darras Hall Branch |publisher=Northumbrian Railways |accessdate=2008-04-26] , 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.

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External links

* [http://www.nexus.org.uk/wps/wcm/connect/Nexus/Metro/Timetables/Metro+-+Timetable+-+Wansbeck+Road+Metro+Station Train times] and [http://www.nexus.org.uk/wps/wcm/connect/Nexus/Metro/Station+information/Metro+Station+-+Wansbeck+Road station information] for PAGENAME from Nexus


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