Northumberland Park Metro station
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Northumberland Park Metro station under construction in 2005.
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| Location | |
| Place | Backworth |
| Local authority | North Tyneside |
| Fare zone information | |
| Network One zone | 2 |
| Metro zone | B |
| Original (1979) zone | 18 |
| Station code | NPK |
| History | |
| Opened | 2005-12-11 |
| List of stations | |
Northumberland Park Metro station is a station on the Tyne and Wear Metro Yellow Line. It serves a new housing development known as Northumberland Park. It is situated between Palmersville and Shiremoor, close to where the single-track freight-only Network Rail line diverges northwards towards Ashington. The station has proved popular with over 320,000 passengers using the station in the 2008-9 period.
The Metro station began operating on 11 December 2005 and was officially opened on 13 December 2005 by Prof Tony Ridley, the first Director General of Nexus. The station is purpose built for Metro and is the first new station to be built since the Sunderland extension in 2002. It is located immediately west of the site of the Backworth railway station, which closed on 13 June 1977 and was demolished prior to the construction of the Metro. Backworth was the only station on the North Tyneside Loop not included in the system, apart from Heaton station (which was on a part of the alignment not used in the Metro).
The station is also served by bus route 19 which links Northumberland Park with the Cobalt & Silverlink Business Parks, Royal Quays and the Shields Ferry.
There is a multi-storey car park adjacent which has limited parking for cycles. The station is also a bus interchange.
Coordinates: 55°01′59″N 1°31′11″W / 55.0331°N 1.5198°W
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