Station usage in Tyne and Wear
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This is a list of railway stations in Tyne and Wear, with estimated usage figures gathered from data collected by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). As of April 2026, there are eight [a] National Rail stations located within the county of Tyne and Wear, from which around 12.20 million passenger journeys were made during 2024–25.[1] There are also 60 Tyne and Wear Metro stations in the county, with around 32.2 million journeys made across the network during 2024–25.[2]
| Station | Usage ranking |
Operated by | Constituency | Journey(s) 2024-25 |
Journey(s) 2023-24 |
Journey(s) 2022-23 |
Journey(s) 2021-22 |
Journey(s) 2020-21[b] |
Journey(s) 2019-20 |
Journey(s) 2018–19 |
Journey(s) 2017–18 |
Journey(s) 2016–17 |
Journey(s) 2015–16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newcastle | 1 | LNER | Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West | 10,548,216 | 9,148,930 | 8,402,922 | 7,040,072 | 1,555,396 | 8,815,096 | 8,913,554 | 8,756,574 | 8,426,644 | 8,189,528 |
| Sunderland | 2 | Northern Trains | Sunderland Central | 709,098 | 598,916 | 481,814 | 385,822 | 107,250 | 427,014 | 441,554 | 447,694 | 483,836 | 475,172 |
| MetroCentre | 3 | Northern Trains | Blaydon and Consett | 632,322 | 518,700 | 320,764 | 287,294 | 61,036 | 298,940 | 301,738 | 335,076 | 350,376 | 354,240 |
| Blaydon | 4 | Northern Trains | Blaydon and Consett | 69,496 | 75,080 | 44,158 | 28,824 | 9,392 | 32,842 | 21,428 | 14,116 | 15,128 | 13,466 |
| Manors | 5 | Northern Trains | Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West | 63,914 | 35,892 | 18,940 | 14,420 | 3,858 | 17,346 | 12,980 | 9,068 | 9,404 | 7,614 |
| Dunston | 6 | Northern Trains | Gateshead Central and Whickham | 50,828 | 46,762 | 24,538 | 17,938 | 6,936 | 19,698 | 16,488 | 12,966 | 10,618 | 7,168 |
| Heworth | 7 | Northern Trains | Jarrow and Gateshead East | 45,528 | 45,120 | 29,148 | 27,412 | 10,786 | 23,454 | 22,588 | 21,064 | 20,784 | 18,898 |
Railway stations in Tyne and Wear
- Heworth opened for British Rail services in November 1979, and the Tyne and Wear Metro in November 1981.
- MetroCentre, on the Tyne Valley Line, opened in August 1987, and serves the Metrocentre in Gateshead.
- The station at Newcastle dates back to August 1850, and is the busiest railway station in Tyne and Wear.