Kingston Park Metro station


Kingston Park is a station on the Tyne and Wear Metro, serving Kingston Park in Newcastle upon Tyne. The station joined the network in September 1985 – more than four years later than neigbouring stations at Bank Foot and Fawdon.
The area surrounding Kingston Park was largely constructed during the late 1970s and early 1980s, meaning that a station did not appear as part of the original plans for the Tyne and Wear Metro network, as the area did not have the required population density.
Kingston Park has two platforms, which are staggered on opposite sides of the level crossing on Brunton Lane. Prior to the opening of the station, in March 1983, a Tyne and Wear Metro service collided with a bus operated by the Tyne and Wear PTE on the level crossing.
In October 2012, traffic enforcement cameras were installed at the level crossings at Kingston Park and Bank Foot. Similar cameras were installed at Callerton Parkway in 2008.
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 443,907 passengers in 2017–18, making it the third-most-used station on the Airport branch, after South Gosforth and Regent Centre.

Facilities

Step-free access is available at all stations across the Tyne and Wear Metro network, with ramped access to both platforms at Kingston Park. 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.
A pay and display car park is available, with 96 spaces, plus 4 accessible spaces. There is also the provision for cycle parking, with 5 cycle pods available for use.

Service and frequency

Kingston Park 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 05:45. Services from platform 2 operate towards Airport, with the first train departing at 05:23. 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.
Journey times from Kingston Park are: