Chichester Metro station
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English: Chichester 54°59′11″N 1°25′55″W / 54.9865°N 1.432°W is a station on the Yellow Line of the Tyne and Wear Metro, serving the Chichester area of South Shields.
Opened | New or converted |
Number of platforms | Track alignment | Tyne & Wear metropolitan borough |
24 March 1984 | New | 2 | N-S | South Tyneside |
Layout | ||||
Two side platforms in a cutting, with the station building built over the southern half | ||||
Platform no. and position |
Direction of travel M |
Previous stop |
Route | Next stop |
Platform 1 West |
Northbound | Tyne Dock | Yellow Line to South Shields (stop 41 of 42) | South Shields |
Platform 2 East |
Southbound | South Shields | Yellow Line to St James (stop 02 of 42) | Tyne Dock |
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 - Northbound is Eastbound & Southbound is Westbound on the Metro map | ||||
Station buildings | ||||
A rectangular station hall in the original style (black/white), 90' by 60' | ||||
Access | ||||
Ground level access via an opening in the southern side of the station building, from the roads Beaufront Terrace and Laygate on the east and west sides respectively; then internal access to platform levels | ||||
Protection from the elements | ||||
Station building underside | ||||
Interchanges | ||||
bus |
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The view north along Platform 2, as a northbound train leaves Platform 1
5 April 2012 -
Looking west from Platform 2 to where the station building descends to Platform 1 level
9 May 2007