Global InformationNewcastle railway station information
Newcastle Station   | |||||
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| Location | Neville Street Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5DL | ||||
| Coordinates | 54°58′06″N 1°37′01″W / 54.9683766°N 1.6170427°W | ||||
| Grid reference | NZ246638 | ||||
| Owned by | Network Rail | ||||
| Managed by | London North Eastern Railway | ||||
| Transit authority | Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive | ||||
| Platforms | 12 | ||||
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| Station code | NCL | ||||
| Classification | DfT category A | ||||
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| Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway | ||||
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| 29 August 1850 | Opened as Newcastle-on-Tyne Central | ||||
| 1890s | Extended | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  8.914 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.376 million | ||||
| 2019/20 |  8.815 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.409 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 1.555 million | ||||
| Interchange | 69,344 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 7.040 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.269 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 8.403 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.307 million | ||||
Listed Building – Grade I | |||||
| Feature | Passenger buildings and train shed with platforms | ||||
| Designated | 14 June 1954 | ||||
| Reference no. | 1355291[1] | ||||
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Newcastle station (also known as Newcastle Central and locally as Central Station) is a railway station in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom. It is located on the East Coast Main Line, around 268 miles (432 km) north of London King's Cross.[2] It is the primary national rail station serving Newcastle upon Tyne and is an interchange for local services provided by the Tyne and Wear Metro network whose Central Station is situated beneath the national rail station. It is the busiest station in Tyne & Wear, as well as the busiest in North East England.[3]
The main line serving the station is the East Coast Main Line from London to Edinburgh via Berwick and Newcastle. TransPennine Express maintains a frequent service to Liverpool and Manchester, and CrossCountry provides services to the West Midlands and South West of England. The station is also on the Durham Coast Line which provides commuter connections to Gateshead, Sunderland, Hartlepool, Stockton, and Middlesbrough. Additionally, the station is served by the Tyne Valley Line to Hexham and Carlisle. Direct destinations from the station include London, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Durham, Birmingham, York, Darlington, Bristol, Reading, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Coventry, Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, Hull, Southampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, and Plymouth.
The station opened in August 1850, as part of the then Newcastle & Carlisle Railway and York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway. Now a Grade I listed building, it is located in the city's Grainger Town area, to the west of the Castle Keep.[1] In Simon Jenkins' Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations, the station was one of only ten to be awarded five stars.[4]
- ^ a b *Historic England. "Central Railway Station; Passenger Buildings and Train Shed with Platforms (1355291)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
- ^ Padgett, David (October 2016) [1988]. Brailsford, Martyn (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern (4th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. map 22A. ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.
- ^ "Office of Rail & Road".
- ^ Morrison, Richard (9 December 2017). "Review: Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins". The Times. Archived from the original on 9 July 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2018.