Percy Main Metro station

Percy Main is a station on the Tyne and Wear Metro, serving Percy Main in North Tyneside. The station joined the network in November 1982, following the opening of the line between Tynemouth and St. James.

Percy Main
Tyne and Wear Metro
Location
PlacePercy Main
Local authorityNorth Tyneside
Coordinates54.9996°N 1.4746°W / 54.9996; -1.4746
Fare zone information
Metro zoneB
Network One2
Original zone28
Station codePCM
Operations
Platforms2
Usage
Metro Usage0.20[1] million
History
Original companyNewcastle and North Shields Railway
Opened 20 September 1839
Closed for conversion11 August 1981
Metro since14 November 1982
List of stations

The station is on the site of the former Percy Main station, which was opened in 1839, on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway, serving a small riverside community clustered around a colliery.[2] This later became part of the North Tyneside Loop, served by the North Eastern Railway.

Heading east from the Percy Main, towards Whitley Bay, the line crosses the 55° north line of latitude. The station is located to the east of the junction with the former Riverside Branch, which closed to passengers in July 1973, with goods services continuing in to the late 1980s.[3]

Following closure for conversion in the early 1980s, the station was demolished and re-built. The original North Eastern Railway was preserved by the National Railway Museum in York. The preserved footbridge is very similar to the one still in place at South Gosforth.[4]

The station is a short walk from the southern terminus of the North Tyneside Steam Railway, a heritage line which runs through the site used by the Tyne and Wear Metro as a testing facility in the late 1970s.

The station was used by 203,204 passengers in 2017–18, making it the tenth-least-used station on the network.

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 Percy Main. The station is equipped with ticket machines, sheltered waiting area, 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]

A small free car park is available, with 6 spaces, plus 2 accessible spaces. There is also the provision for cycle parking, with 3 cycle pods available for use.[9]

Service and frequency

Percy Main 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 via Whitley Bay, with the first train departing at 06:06 (06:17 on Saturday and 06:24 on Sunday). Services from platform 2 operate towards St. James, with the first train departing at 05:34 (05:53 on Saturday and 06:38 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 Percy Main are:

See also

References
  1. "Tyne and Wear Metro usage figures 2017–2018". Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  2. "Disused Stations: Percy Main Station". Disused Stations. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  3. "Riverside Branch". Northumbrian Railways. Archived from the original on 16 July 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  4. "Railway footbridge from Percy Main Colliery station". National Railway Museum. Retrieved 10 February 2007.
  5. "Metro passengers feel the benefit of contactless payment". Nexus. 13 January 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  6. "Revamp for Metro ticket machines". BBC News. 11 December 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  7. "City Metro stations get new smart ticket machines and gates". Nexus. 22 October 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  8. "Pop card validators at Metro stations are put through their paces". Nexus. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  9. "Timetables and stations: Percy Main". Nexus. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
Preceding station   Tyne and Wear Metro   Following station
towards St James
Yellow line
towards South Shields
  Heritage railways
North Tyneside Steam Railway
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