Central Station Metro station

English: Central Station 54.9691°N 1.6163°W / 54.9691; -1.6163 (Central Station Metro station) is a station on the Green & Yellow Lines of the Tyne and Wear Metro, sited beneath Central Station, the main railway station in Newcastle.

Opened	New or converted	Number of platforms	Track alignment	Tyne & Wear metropolitan borough
15 November 1981	New	2	NNE-SSW	Newcastle upon Tyne
Layout
An underground island platform and an underground station concourse beneath the mainline station building (underneath the taxi road along the front of the east side of the Neville Street mainline station frontage)
Platform no. and position	Direction of travel	Previous stop	Route	Next stop
Platform 1 East	Southbound	Monument	Yellow Line to South Shields (stop 30 of 42)	Gateshead
			Green Line to South Hylton (stop 14 of 31)
Platform 2 West	Northbound	Gateshead	Yellow Line to St James (stop 13 of 42)	Monument
			Green Line to Airport (stop 18 of 31)
Notes
None
Station buildings
An entrance lobby is incorporated into part of the mainline station building along Neville Street
Access
Steps, lift & escalator down from ground level from inside the mainline station building, and steps down from ground level from 2 outside entrances - one at the west end of the station's north frontage in Neville Street (with steps descending east to west), the other on the east side of the NNE-SSW Grainger Street near its southern end (with steps descending north to south)
Protection from the elements
Tunnel roofs
Interchanges
rail, bus

Outside entrances

Grainger Street entrance

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  The view north east to the the Grainger Street entrance
  5 July 2005
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  7 October 2013
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  The view south west to the Grainger Street entrance, with the mainline station building in the background
  22 April 2008
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  The view south from the bottom of the steps underneath Neville Street to the ticket hall
  7 October 2013

Neville Street entrance

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  The view west over the Neville Street entrance and along the front of the mainline station building, to its portico
  5 January 2009
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  8 January 2006
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  8 January 2006
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  The Neville Street entrance
  9 May 2007

Mainline station entrance lobby

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  The view west along the mainline station concourse, showing the lobby entrance on the right
  7 October 2013
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  The view east along the mainline station concourse, showing the lobby entrance on the left
  7 October 2013
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  The access to the lobby as seen from the concourse
  12 March 2009
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  7 October 2013
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  7 October 2013
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  The illuminated signage above the concourse entrance arches
  12 March 2009
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  The view out of the lobby, to the mainline councourse
  7 October 2013
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  The view east inside the lobby
  7 October 2013
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  The view north east inside the lobby
  7 October 2013
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  The view north inside the lobby
  7 October 2013
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  The steps inside the lobby, down to the ticket hall
  5 October 2012
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  The plaque describing Wakesweek
  7 October 2013

Ticket hall

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  The view south from the Grainger Street access - mainline access far right, Neville Street far left
  7 October 2013

Escalator to platform level

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  Escalators either side of a stairway
  16 November 2005
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  Escalators either side of a stairway
  5 January 2009

Platform level

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  The panel at the north end of the space in between Platform 2 (left) & 1 (right)
  1 January 2005
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  The panel at the north end of the space in between Platform 2 (left) & 1 (right)
  6 October 2008
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  Looking south along Platform 1
  18 January 2006
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  Looking south along Platform 1, with Metrocar No. 4018 at the rear of a train loading while en route to South Hylton
  10 February 2010
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  An airport bound train loading at Platform 2
  5 January 2009
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  The view from the front of a train arriving at Platform 2, en route to Airport station
  1 March 2010
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  Station sign on one of the tunnel walls
  16 January 2010