Hebburn Metro station

Hebburn is a station on the Tyne and Wear Metro, serving Hebburn in South Tyneside. The station joined the network in March 1984, following the opening of the line between Heworth and South Shields.

Hebburn
Tyne and Wear Metro
Location
Place	Hebburn
Local authority	South Tyneside
Coordinates	54.9749°N 1.5219°W / 54.9749; -1.5219
Fare zone information
Metro zone	B
Network One	2
Original zone	37
Station code	HEB
Operations
Platforms	2
Usage
Metro Usage	0.42[1] million
History
Original company	North Eastern Railway
Opened	1 March 1872
Closed for conversion	1 June 1981
Metro since	24 March 1984
List of stations

The station is situated on the site of the former Hebburn station, which opened in 1872 under the North Eastern Railway.[2] Following closure for conversion in the early 1980s, the station was demolished and re-built, with staggered platforms on each side of the bridge on Station Road.

Hebburn is situated on a single line section of track, but has a long passing loop for Tyne and Wear Metro services, and therefore two platforms. On the north side of the station is a single-track line used by freight services.

In March 2020, the Government announced a £103 million scheme, known as Metro Flow, during the 2020 Budget. From September 2022, the project will see three sections of single line between Pelaw and Bede converted to dual use, with the existing freight-only line electrified, and re-designed to operate using a similar system to the shared line between Pelaw and Sunderland.[3][4]

The station was used by 417,320 passengers in 2017–18, making it the fourth-most-used station on the South Shields branch, after Pelaw (1,092,716), South Shields (588,248) and Jarrow (440,153).

Facilities

Step-free access is available at all stations across the Tyne and Wear Metro network, with ramps providing step-free access to both platforms at Hebburn. The station is equipped with ticket machines, waiting shelter, seating, next train information displays, timetable posters, and an emergency help point on both platforms. Ticket machines are able to accept payment with credit and debit card (including contactless payment), notes and coins.[5][6] The station is also fitted with smartcard validators, which feature at all stations across the network.[7][8]

There is a free car park available at the station, with 80 spaces, plus 4 accessible spaces, as well as a taxi rank. There is also the provision for cycle parking, with 5 cycle pods available for use.[9]

Service and frequency

Hebburn is served by the  Yellow Line , which operates between South Shields and St. James with an end-to-end journey time of 83 minutes.

Services from platform 1 operate towards South Shields, with the first train departing at 05:24 (05:31 on Saturday and 06:46 on Sunday). Services from platform 2 operate towards St. James via Whitley Bay, with the first train departing at 05:57 (06:00 on Saturday and 07:15 on Sunday). Trains run frequently across the network, at intervals of up to every 12 minutes (Monday to Saturday daytime), and every 15 minutes (evening and Sunday), with the last trains departing at around midnight.[9]

Journey times from Hebburn are:

• 4 minutes to Pelaw
• 13 minutes to South Shields
• 15 minutes to Monument
• 24 minutes to South Gosforth
• 42 minutes to Whitley Bay via South Gosforth

See also

• Hebburn

References

1. "Tyne and Wear Metro usage figures 2017–2018". Retrieved 21 August 2019.
2. "Disused Stations: Pelaw Station (2nd site)". Disused Stations. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
3. "Our £100m project to boost frequency and reliability on Metro". Nexus. 11 March 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
4. "Rail in the 2020 budget". Railway Gazette International. 11 March 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
5. "Metro passengers feel the benefit of contactless payment". Nexus. 13 January 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
6. "Revamp for Metro ticket machines". BBC News. 11 December 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
7. "City Metro stations get new smart ticket machines and gates". Nexus. 22 October 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
8. "Pop card validators at Metro stations are put through their paces". Nexus. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
9. "Timetables and stations: Hebburn". Nexus. Retrieved 27 May 2020.

External links

• Local area map and onward connections for Hebburn
• Timetable and station information for Hebburn
• Media related to Hebburn Metro station at Wikimedia Commons

Preceding station		Tyne and Wear Metro		Following station
Pelaw towards St James		Yellow line		Jarrow towards South Shields