Gateshead Stadium Metro station

English: Gateshead Stadium 54.9577°N 1.5885°W / 54.9577; -1.5885 (Gateshead Stadium Metro station) is a station on the Green & Yellow Lines of the Tyne and Wear Metro, near the Gateshead International Stadium.

Opened	New or converted	Number of platforms	Track alignment	Tyne & Wear metropolitan borough
15 November 1981	New	2	NW-SE	Gateshead
Layout
An island platform in a cutting shared with a mainline double-track to the north, with a station building built over the southern track at the western end, and with a bridge for St James Road west of the platform end over both the Metro and mainline tracks
Platform no. and position	Direction of travel M	Previous stop	Route	Next stop
Platform 1 North East	SE bound	Gateshead	Yellow Line to South Shields (stop 32 of 42)	Felling
			Green Line to South Hylton (stop 16 of 31)
Platform 2 South West	NW bound	Felling	Yellow Line to St James (stop 11 of 42)	Gateshead
			Green Line to Airport (stop 16 of 31)
Notes
* M - these are compass headings, which in this station's case do not correspond to the directions diagrammatically indicated on the official Metro route map archive copy at the Wayback Machine - NW bound is Westbound & SE bound is Eastbound on the Metro map
Station buildings
A simple rectangular structure in the original style (concrete/red), 50' by 30'
Access
Street level entrance from a station forecourt at the corner of St James Road/Shelley Drive (NW-SE) into the SW side of the building, with a ramp out of the SE side down the full platform length to platform level at the east end, and stairs down from the NW side
Protection from the elements
Station building underside & access ramp
Interchanges
None

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  The view north east from Sunderland Road to the illuminated station building, centre right
  8 January 2009
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  The view south from the north end of the St James Road, over the mainline to the south eastern half of the platform
  27 October 2005
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  The view from the front of Metrocar No. 4089 as it enters Platform 1, en route to South Hylton
  10 October 2005
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  The view west across the south east end of the platform, as Metrocar No. 4077 forms the front half of a train in Platform 1 bound for South Shields, taken from a westbound Northern Rail train on the mainline (Class 155 DMU No. 156489)
  10 October 2005
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  The view north west from the rear of a Metrocar as it leaves Platform 1
  1 January 2006
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  The view south east from the rear of a Metrocar as it leaves Platform 2
  2 January 2010
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  The view south east from the end of the station platform, as a train approaches Platform 2 bound for Bank Foot
  20 February 1985