Heritage railway stations · North East England
Bank Foot
Bank Foot in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Bank Foot is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Bank Foot is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the suburbs of Woolsington and Kenton in the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It opened as a single platform terminal station in 1981, with the opening of the second phase of the metro, between South Gosforth and Bank Foot. It was restructured as a two platform through station in 1991, with the opening of the extension to Newcastle Airport.
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Background
History
The Metro station is located at the site of the former Kenton Bank station, which opened on 1 June 1905 as part of the Gosforth and Ponteland Light Railway. The line closed to passengers on 17 June 1929, with goods services operating from the station until January 1966. The line through the station however remained open to serve the explosives depot at ICI Callerton, situated between and stations, where explosives were transferred from rail to road for onward transport to quarries in Northumberland. The Metro station opened on 10 May 1981. At the same time, the single-track bridge to the east of the station was re-built as double track, with Bank Foot station re-modelled as a double track…
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- Coordinates
- 55.0140, -1.6781
- Address
- Kenton Bank Foot, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Established
- 1981
- Official site
- www.whatdotheyknow.com
Sources
- wikidata: Q4855918 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Bank Foot Metro station (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Bank Foot?
- Bank Foot is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.0140°, -1.6781°.
- When was Bank Foot built?
- Bank Foot dates to 1981.