Manors Metro station

Manors is an underground station on the Tyne and Wear Metro, serving the city centre, Manors and Shieldfield in Newcastle upon Tyne. The station joined the network in November 1982, following the opening of the line between Tynemouth and St. James. The station is located a short walk away from the National Rail station at Manors, which is situated on the East Coast Main Line.[2]

This article is about the Tyne and Wear Metro station. For the National Rail station of the same name, see Manors railway station.

Manors
Tyne and Wear Metro
Location
PlaceManors
Local authorityNewcastle upon Tyne
Coordinates54.9740°N 1.6048°W / 54.9740; -1.6048
Fare zone information
Metro zoneA
Network One1
Original zone26
Station codeMAN
Operations
Platforms2
Escalators2 (up only)
Usage
Metro Usage0.17[1] million
History
Opened 14 November 1982
List of stations

An abstract mural, Magic City by British artist Basil Beattie, was comissioned in 1987, and can be seen on the station concourse.[3]

The station is located towards the edge of the city centre, and is relatively lightly used. Manors was used by 170,337 passengers in 2017–18, making it the eighth-least-used station on the network.

Heading east from Manors, the route surfaces alongside the East Coast Main Line, before crossing the dramatic 815 m (2,674 ft) Byker Viaduct over the Ouseburn Valley, towards Byker. The S-shaped viaduct was constructed for the Tyne and Wear Metro by Ove Arup, with work commencing in 1976, and completed in 1979.[4][5]

The former North Eastern Railway route between Manors and Jesmond is connected by a link tunnel, located to the west of the station. It is used only by trains running out of public service, allowing them to terminate at Manors, and then return to the depot at South Gosforth (and vice versa), without having to travel around the North Tyneside Loop.

Facilities

Step-free access is available at all stations across the Tyne and Wear Metro network, with two lifts providing step-free access to platforms at Manors. As part of the Metro: All Change programme, new lifts were installed at Manors in 2014,[6] with new escalators installed in 2015.[7] The station is equipped with ticket machines, 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.[8][9] The station is fitted with automatic ticket barriers, which were installed at 13 stations across the network during the early 2010s, as well as smartcard validators, which feature at all stations.[10][11]

There is no dedicated parking at the station, however there are nearby pay and display car parks, operated by Newcastle City Council. There is the provision for cycle parking, with 5 cycle pods available for use.[12]

Service and frequency

Manors 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 05:51 (06:03 on Saturday and 06:10 on Sunday). Services from platform 2 operate towards St. James, with the first train departing at 05:49 (06:07 on Saturday and 06:52 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.[12]

Journey times from Manors are:

See also

References
  1. "Tyne & Wear Metro usage figures". 2017–2018. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  2. "Manors Station Information". Northern Trains. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  3. "'Magic City' by Basil Beattie". Nexus. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  4. Smyth, W. (December 1977). "Byker Viaduct" (PDF). The Arup Journal. 12 (4): 24–27.
  5. Morton, David (24 February 2017). "Bridging the gap at Byker: How Metro, road and rail crosses the Ouseburn Valley". ChronicleLive. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  6. "Passenger lifts at Jesmond and Manors Metro stations are to be replaced". Nexus. 17 June 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  7. "New escalators for Heworth and Gateshead". Nexus. 18 March 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  8. "Metro passengers feel the benefit of contactless payment". Nexus. 13 January 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  9. "Revamp for Metro ticket machines". BBC News. 11 December 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  10. "City Metro stations get new smart ticket machines and gates". Nexus. 22 October 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  11. "Pop card validators at Metro stations are put through their paces". Nexus. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  12. "Timetables and stations: Manors". Nexus. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
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towards St James
Yellow line
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