MetroCentre train station
You can reach 38 stations directly from MetroCentre on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Newcastle, with 94 trains a day.
Address: Gateshead, NE11 9GA
MetroCentre is the nearest station for postcodes in NE16. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from MetroCentre
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newcastle | 94 | 92 | 76 |
| Prudhoe | 88 | 88 | 26 |
| Hexham | 86 | 86 | 26 |
| Carlisle | 60 | 60 | 26 |
| Haltwhistle | 60 | 60 | 26 |
| Wylam | 45 | 45 | 26 |
| Blaydon | 44 | 44 | 26 |
| Stocksfield | 44 | 44 | 26 |
| Corbridge | 43 | 43 | 26 |
| Riding Mill | 43 | 43 | 26 |
| Wetheral | 42 | 42 | 26 |
| Dunston | 40 | 38 | 24 |
| Haydon Bridge | 40 | 40 | 26 |
| Bardon Mill | 38 | 38 | 26 |
| Brampton | 38 | 38 | 26 |
| Hartlepool | 29 | 28 | 0 |
| Middlesbrough | 29 | 28 | 1 |
| Sunderland | 29 | 29 | 0 |
| Thornaby | 29 | 28 | 1 |
| Stockton | 28 | 27 | 0 |
| Heworth | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| Horden | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| Seaham | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| Billingham | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| Seaton Carew | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| Nunthorpe | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Allens West | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Chester-le-Street | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Cramlington | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Darlington | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Durham | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Dinsdale | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Eaglescliffe | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Gypsy Lane | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| James Cook | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Manors | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Morpeth | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Marton | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Lines serving MetroCentre
MetroCentre is on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through MetroCentre station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside MetroCentre station on 66 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 13 paths on the Wednesday, 2 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 21 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 15:00 to 16:00 on the Monday, with 3 paths booked.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy MetroCentre station is
632,322 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 766th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between MetroCentre and Newcastle than any other pair: 346,054 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.
Nearest other stations
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of MetroCentre, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Elswick · 0.5 miles
- Scotswood Works Halt · 0.8 miles
- Derwenthaugh · 0.8 miles
- Swalwell · 1.1 miles
- Scotswood · 1.1 miles
- Newcastle · 1.5 miles
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Facilities at MetroCentre station
MetroCentre is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.
From National Rail's station record, last updated 25 August 2026.
Getting to MetroCentre station
MetroCentre station is in Gateshead, North East, and is run by Northern Trains.
The nearest motorway junction is A1(M) J65 (Birtley), 5.3 miles south-east.
16 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Metrocentre.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
MetroCentre station elsewhere
- National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
- Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
- Wikipedia the station's history
- OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from
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