Felling Metro station

English: Felling 54°57′11″N 1°34′18″W / 54.953159°N 1.571774°W is a station on the Green & Yellow Lines of the Tyne and Wear Metro, serving the Felling area of east Gateshead.

Opened	New or converted	Number of platforms	Track alignment	Tyne & Wear metropolitan borough
15 November 1981	Converted	2	WNW-ESE	Gateshead
Layout
An island platform in a cutting shared with two more tracks to the north
Platform no. and position	Direction of travel	Previous stop	Route	Next stop
Platform 1 North	Eastbound	Gateshead Stadium	Yellow Line to South Shields (stop 33 of 42)	Heworth
			Green Line to South Hylton (stop 17 of 31)
Platform 2 South	Westbound	Heworth	Yellow Line to St James (stop 10 of 42)	Gateshead Stadium
			Green Line to Airport (stop 15 of 31)
Notes
None
Station buildings
No building (a pair of back to back single sided shelters in the middle only). The station did originally have a station building built in the original Metro style, built at the end of and beyond the west end of the platform - this was removed to make way for the ramps for the bridges installed in 2008, being replaced by the smaller set of shelters
Access
Stairs and ramps in the eastern third, ascending east to footbridges across the tracks, south to the E-W Sunderland Road (B1426) and a small car park on the top of the retaining wall of the cutting, and north over the mainline to the E-W Mulberry Street (with ramps and stairs down to its level, beyond a boundary wall along the track). These steel footbridges and stairs/ramps were installed in January 2008, replacing an unramped Victorian iron and timber bridge
Protection from the elements
The access ramp underside, plus two 30' standalone platform shelters back to back, and two 15' by slightly wider examples to the south
Interchanges
None

The view west from the end of the island platform to Metrocar No. 4007, which forms the front half of a train that is about to arrive at Platform 1 bound for Heworth
20 March 1982
The view east along Platform 1, with Metrocar No. 4077 forming the rear half of a train bound for Heworth
20 March 1982
The view east along Platform 2, with Metrocar No. 4072 forming the front half of a train bound for Benton
20 March 1982
The view east along Platform 2, with Metrocar No. 4077 forming the front half of a train bound for Tynemouth
20 March 1982
The view east along Platform 2, with Metrocar No. 4045 forming the front half of a train bound for Bank Foot
20 March 1982
The view west from the end of the island platform to Metrocar No. 4066, which forms the rear half of a train that has just departed Platform 2 bound for Bank Foot
20 March 1982
The view west from the end of the island platform to Metrocar No. 4053, which forms the rear half of a train that has just departed Platform 2 bound for Benton
20 March 1982
The view from the front of Metrocar No. 4089 as it approaches Platform 1, en route to South Hylton
10 October 2005
The view west across the west end of the island platform, showing the Platform 1 track empty and a westbound train in Platform 2, taken from a westbound train on the mainline (Class 155 DMU No. 156453) bound for Newcastle Central Station
10 October 2005
The view north west across the station, from Sunderland Road
27 October 2005
The view east along Platform 1
9 May 2007
The view north from the west end of the island platform across the three tracks to the boundary wall
4 September 2008
The view north west across the station, from the footbridge to Sunderland Road
8 January 2009
The view south east from the Mulberry Street access ramp across the three tracks to the platform access ramp and beyond to St Patrick's Church in the distance
16 July 2010
The view west from the access stairs. Metrocar No. 4069, which forms the front half of a train bound for St James, is loading in Platform 2
16 July 2010
The view west from Carlisle Street bridge to the island platform and footbridges/access ramps of the station, with the mainline double track on the right
31 March 2012