Manors Metro station
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| Manors | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Place | Manors |
| Local authority | Newcastle |
| Fare zone information | |
| Network Zone | 26 |
| Metro Zone | A |
| History | |
| Opened | 1982-11-14 |
| Tyne and Wear Metro List of Tyne and Wear Metro stations |
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This article refers to the Tyne and Wear Metro station, for the National Rail station of the same name, please see Manors railway station.
Manors Metro station is located to the east of Newcastle City Centre. The station is on the Yellow line of the Tyne and Wear Metro system, and opened in 1982.
Heading east from Manors station, the route surfaces alongside the East Coast Main Line and then crosses the dramatic 800m long Byker Viaduct constructed by Ove Arup specifically for the Metro. Also heading west towards Monument is a single track service line which re-joins the yellow/green line just north of Jesmond station. This allows trains to terminate at Manors and then return to the Gosforth depot without having to travel around the coast.
The former North Eastern Railway route between Manors railway station and Jesmond can be accessed via a link tunnel just west of Manors Metro station. It is only used by trains running out of public service to and from the Metro depot in Gosforth. The line can be clearly seen from satellite imagery, running alongside the A167(M) Central Motorway.
[edit] See also
Manors railway station - the adjacent National Rail station.
[edit] External links
- Train times and station information for Manors Metro station from Nexus
- Arup webpage describing Byker Viaduct
- Images of Byker Viaduct on Flickr.com
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- Satellite image from WikiMapia or Google Map
- Street map from Multimap or GlobalGuide
- Aerial image from TerraServer
| Previous station | Tyne and Wear Metro | Next station | ||
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toward St James
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Yellow line |
toward South Shields via the Coast
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