Bank Foot | |||||||||||
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Tyne and Wear Metro station | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | Kenton Bank Foot Newcastle upon Tyne England | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 55°00′50″N 1°40′41″W / 55.0139176°N 1.6780732°W | ||||||||||
Grid reference | NZ206688 | ||||||||||
Transit authority | Tyne and Wear PTE | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Parking | 62 spaces | ||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 8 cycle pods | ||||||||||
Accessible | Step-free access to platform | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Station code | BFT | ||||||||||
Fare zone | B | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Original company | Tyne and Wear Metro | ||||||||||
Key dates | |||||||||||
10 May 1981 | Opened as terminus of line | ||||||||||
17 November 1991 | Line extended to Airport | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2017/18 | 0.11 million[1] | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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Bank Foot is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the suburbs of Woolsington and Kenton in the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It opened as a single platform terminal station in 1981, with the opening of the second phase of the metro, between South Gosforth and Bank Foot. It was restructured as a two platform through station in 1991, with the opening of the extension to Newcastle Airport.