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| Location | Newcastle International Airport,Newcastle upon Tyne England | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 55°02′08″N1°42′40″W / 55.0356373°N 1.7110967°W /55.0356373; -1.7110967 | ||||||||||
| Grid reference | NZ185713 | ||||||||||
| System | Tyne and Wear Metro station | ||||||||||
| Transit authority | Tyne and Wear PTE | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Accessible | Step-free access to platform | ||||||||||
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| Station code | APT | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | C | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Original company | Tyne and Wear Metro | ||||||||||
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| 17 November 1991 | Opened | ||||||||||
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| 2017/18 | 0.39 million[1] | ||||||||||
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Airport (also known asNewcastle Airport) is aTyne and Wear Metro station, servingNewcastle International Airport in the English city ofNewcastle upon Tyne. It opened as a terminus station in 1991, following the opening of the extension fromBank Foot to Airport.
Construction of the extension of the Metro from Bank Foot to Newcastle Airport began in 1990, after funding had been secured from theEuropean Economic Community (now theEuropean Union). The majority of the route of the extension uses the alignment of thePonteland Railway, with a short (around 0.2 miles or 0.32 kilometres) section of newright-of-way at the airport end. The Ponteland Railway opened in June 1905, closing to passenger services in June 1929, with goods services operating into the late 1960s.[2][3]
During the construction of the line, a dedicated bus service operated betweenBank Foot andNewcastle International Airport.[4]
The extension and station opened on 17 November 1991, at a cost of£12 million. The new station at the airport had a pyramid design, and was linked to both platforms and the main airport terminal by covered walkways. As well as the airport station, a new intermediate station was built atCallerton Parkway, and a second platform was added toBank Foot station.[2][5]
In 2014, a survey conducted by theConsumers Association found that theTyne and Wear Metro service from the Airport was one of the highest ratedairport rail links in the country for customer satisfaction – scoring 85%. Only the rail link servingBirmingham International Airport was rated higher.[6]
The only access to the station is through the main terminal building of the airport. Step-free covered walkways link the terminal building to the ticket hall, and the ticket hall to the station's island platform. There is no dedicated car orbicycle parking available at the station, with car parking controlled and operated by the airport. A taxi rank is located at the front of the terminal building.[7]
The station is equipped with ticket machines, waiting shelter, seating, next train information displays, timetable posters, and an emergency help point. Ticket machines accept payment with credit and debit cards (includingcontactless payment), notes and coins.[8][9] The station is fitted with automatic ticket barriers, which were installed at 13 stations across the network during the early 2010s, as well as smartcard validators, which feature at all stations.[10][11]
As of October 2024[update], the station is served by up to five trains per hour on weekdays and Saturday, and up to four trains per hour during the evening and on Sunday. Trains run toSouth Hylton viaNewcastle andSunderland.[7]
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