Station usage in Tyne and Wear
This is a list of railway stations in Tyne and Wear, with estimated usage figures gathered from data collected by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). As of May 2020, there are seven National Rail stations located within the county of Tyne and Wear, from which around 9.73 million passenger journeys were made during 2018–19.[1] There are also 60 Tyne and Wear Metro stations in the county, with around 36.4 million journeys made across the network during 2018–19.[2]
| Station | Usage ranking |
Operated by | Constituency | Journey(s) 2018–19 |
Journey(s) 2017–18 |
Journey(s) 2016–17 |
Journey(s) 2015–16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newcastle | 1 | LNER | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | 8,913,554 | 8,756,574 | 8,426,644 | 8,189,528 |
Sunderland
|
2 | Northern Trains | Sunderland Central | 441,554 | 447,694 | 483,836 | 475,172 |
| MetroCentre | 3 | Northern Trains | Blaydon | 301,738 | 335,076 | 350,376 | 354,240 |
Heworth
|
4 | Northern Trains | Gateshead | 22,588 | 21,064 | 20,784 | 18,898 |
| Blaydon | 5 | Northern Trains | Blaydon | 21,428 | 14,116 | 15,128 | 13,466 |
| Dunston | 6 | Northern Trains | Gateshead | 16,488 | 12,966 | 10,618 | 7,168 |
| Manors | 7 | Northern Trains | Newcastle upon Tyne East | 12,980 | 9,068 | 9,404 | 7,614 |
Gallery
Railway stations in Tyne and Wear
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Heworth opened for British Rail services in November 1979, and the Tyne and Wear Metroin November 1981. -
MetroCentre, on the Tyne Valley Line, opened in August 1987, and serves the Metrocentre in Gateshead. -
The station at Newcastle dates back to August 1850, and is the busiest railway station in Tyne and Wear.
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References
- ^ "Estimates of station usage". Office of Rail and Road. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ^ "Light rail and tram statistics, England: 2018/19" (PDF). Department for Transport. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2020.