Callerton Parkway is a parkway station the Tyne and Wear Metro, serving Woolsington in Newcastle upon Tyne. The station joined the network in November 1991, following the opening of the line between Bank Foot and Airport. The majority of the route was already in place, with the alignment having been formerly served by the Ponteland and Darras Hall branch of the Blyth and Tyne Railway. The Airport branch only required the construction of a short distance of new right-of-way. Callerton Parkway is situated close to the site of the former Callerton station, which was located to the north west of the level crossing on Callerton Lane. The station opened to passengers in June 1905, consisting of a single platform, simple pitched roof station building, and a signal box. The line closed to passengers in June 1929, with goods services operating until November 1965. In 2008, traffic enforcement cameras were installed at the station's level crossing – this having been the location of over half of the road traffic incidents at the five Metro-owned level crossings on the network. Similar cameras were installed at nearby Bank Foot and Kingston Park in October 2012. In 2018, the station, along with others on the Airport branch, were refurbished as part of the Metro: All Change programme. The project saw improvements to accessibility, security and energy efficiency, as well as the re-branding of the station to the new black and white corporate colour scheme. The station was used by 170,716 passengers in 2017–18, making it the ninth-least-used station on the network.
Facilities
Step-free access is available at all stations across the Tyne and WearMetro network, with ramped access to both platforms at Callerton Parkway. The station is equipped with ticket machines, waiting shelter, seating, next train information displays, timetable posters, and an emergency help point on both platforms. Ticket machines are able to accept payment with credit and debit card, notes and coins. The station is also fitted with smartcard validators, which feature at all stations across the network. The station serves as a park and ride for the surrounding area, including Darras Hall and Ponteland in Northumberland. A large pay and displaycar park is available, with 189 spaces, plus 7 accessible spaces, as well as a taxi rank. There is also the provision for cycle parking, with 4 cycle lockers and 5 cycle pods available for use.
Service and frequency
Callerton Parkway is served by the, which operates between South Hylton and Airport, with an end-to-end journey time of 64 minutes. Services from platform 1 operate towards South Hylton, with the first train departing at 05:42. Services from platform 2 operate towards Airport, with the first train departing at 05:30. Trains run frequently across the network, at intervals of up to every 12 minutes, and every 15 minutes, with the last trains departing at around midnight.
