Brockley Whins Metro station

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Brockley Whins
Brockley Whins station viewed from the front window of a Metro train in 2005
Location
Place	Brockley Whins
Local authority	South Tyneside
Fare zone information
Network Zone	37
Metro Zone	B
History
Opened	June 1839
Metro since	2002-03-31
Tyne and Wear Metro List of Tyne and Wear Metro stations

Brockley Whins Metro station is on the Tyne and Wear Metro Green Line. It serves the Brockley Whins area of South Tyneside, England.

The station was formerly served by mainline services between Sunderland and Newcastle Central station but was taken over by the Metro as part of the extension to Sunderland and South Hylton in 2002. Today the services operated by the current franchise holder Northern Rail pass through the station but do not stop.

The original Brockley Whins station, on the Brandling Junction railway, only had a platform on the down line (towards Newcastle). This meant trains towards Sunderland had to cross over onto the opposite track to allow passengers to board and alight. This single line working arrangement resulted in an accident causing five deaths on 1870-12-06 and the building of a second platform originally some distance south from the other, as well as changes to the law.^{[citation needed]}

For a time, the station was known as Boldon Colliery, but later reverted to its original name.