Percy Main Metro station


Percy Main is a station on the Tyne and Wear Metro, serving Percy Main in North Tyneside. The station joined the network in November 1982, following the opening of the line between Tynemouth and St. James.
The station is on the site of the former Percy Main station, which was opened in 1839, on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway, serving a small riverside community clustered around a colliery. This later became part of the North Tyneside Loop, served by the North Eastern Railway.
Heading east from the Percy Main, towards Whitley Bay, the line crosses the 55° north line of latitude. The station is located to the east of the junction with the former Riverside Branch, which closed to passengers in July 1973, with goods services continuing in to the late 1980s.
Following closure for conversion in the early 1980s, the station was demolished and re-built. The original North Eastern Railway was preserved by the National Railway Museum in York. The preserved footbridge is very similar to the one still in place at South Gosforth.
The station is a short walk from the southern terminus of the North Tyneside Steam Railway, a heritage line which runs through the site used by the Tyne and Wear Metro as a testing facility in the late 1970s.
The station was used by 203,204 passengers in 2017–18, making it the tenth-least-used station on the network.

Facilities

Step-free access is available at all stations across the Tyne and Wear Metro network, with ramps providing step-free access to both platforms at Percy Main. The station is equipped with ticket machines, sheltered waiting area, 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 small free car park is available, with 6 spaces, plus 2 accessible spaces. There is also the provision for cycle parking, with 3 cycle pods available for use.

Service and frequency

Percy Main is served by the, which operates between South Shields and St. James with an end-to-end journey time of 83 minutes.
Services from platform 1 operate towards South Shields via Whitley Bay, with the first train departing at 06:06. Services from platform 2 operate towards St. James, with the first train departing at 05:34. 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 Percy Main are: