Chillingham Road Metro station

English: Chillingham Road 54.9829°N 1.5718°W / 54.9829; -1.5718 (Chillingham Road Metro station) is a station on the Yellow Line of the Tyne and Wear Metro, serving the Heaton area of east Newcastle.

Opened	New or converted	Number of platforms	Track alignment	Tyne & Wear metropolitan borough
14 November 1982	New	2	ENE-WSW	Newcastle upon Tyne
Layout
Two side platforms bordered to the south by a retaining wall for an industrial park, and to the north by mainline railway tracks for Heaton Traction Maintenance Depot (TMD) and the East Coast Main Line; a platform level station building at the west end of the north platform and a street level station building in the eastern half of the south platform
Platform no. and position	Direction of travel	Previous stop	Route	Next stop
Platform 1 North	Eastbound	Byker	Yellow Line to South Shields (stop 05 of 42)	Walkergate
Platform 2 South	Westbound	Walkergate	Yellow Line to St James (stop 38 of 42)	Byker
Notes
None
Station buildings
Two simple rectangular structures in the original style (brick/black panel), 20' by 15' (north) and 50' by 30' (south)
Access
Ramps up to the southern station building, which is at the northern end of Depot Road; a 280' long footpath east from the Chillingham Road bridge over the ECML to an elevated concrete island on the north side of the Metro tracks, with two paths from there 400' further east to the west end of the platforms - one via a long ramp down to platform level on the north side, and the other via a bridge over the tracks and then along the top of the south cutting retaining wall; a footbridge connecting both platforms at the eastern end
Protection from the elements
90' platform canopies attached to both station side walls
Interchanges
None

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  The Metro sign marking the point where Chillingham Road (right) meets the station access footpath (left)
  12 July 2008
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  The view east from Chillingham road along the footpath to the station
  23 June 2006
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  The view north across the tracks west of the station from the southern access footpath for Platform 2, to the point where the northern access path for Platform 1 changes from a solid ramp (right) to an elevated ramp (left)
  31 August 2009
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  The view west along Platform 2
  19 March 2008
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  The view west along Platform 2
  12 June 2009
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  The view south west to the eastern end of Platform 2, looking back from the side windows of the front end of Metrocar No. 4089 in Platform 1
  10 October 2005
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  Looking west at two mirrors and a CCTV camera at the west end of Platform 2
  31 August 2009
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  The view north east from Platform 2 across to Platform 1
  31 August 2009
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  The view west across the tracks from the top of the ramp down to Platform 2, to the station building at the end of Platform 1
  31 August 2009
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  The view east along Platform 1 as train which has just left Platform 1 passes a train about to arrive at Platform 2
  21 February 2009