Hebburn is a
Tyne and Wear Metro
The Tyne and Wear Metro is an overground and underground light rail rapid transit system serving Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, and the City of Sunderland (together forming Tyne and Wear). The network opened in ...
station, serving the town of
Hebburn
Hebburn is a town in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. It governed under the borough of South Tyneside; formerly governed under the county of Durham until 1974 with its own urban district from 1894 until 1974. It is on the sout ...
,
South Tyneside
South Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, North East England.
It is bordered by all four other boroughs in Tyne and Wear – Gateshead to the west, Sunderland in the south, North Tyneside to the no ...
in
Tyne and Wear
Tyne and Wear () is a metropolitan county in North East England, situated around the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear. It was created in 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972, along with five metropolitan boroughs of Gateshead, Newc ...
, England. It joined the network on 24 March 1984, following the opening of the fifth phase of the network, between
Heworth and
South Shields.
History
The station was opened on 1 March 1872 by the
North Eastern Railway.
The station became a
Tyneside Electrics
The Tyneside Electrics were the suburban railways on Tyneside that the North Eastern Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway electrified using the third rail system. The North Tyneside Loop was electrified from 1904 onwards and formed o ...
station around 1938 and de-electricified in 1963. Following closure for conversion in the early 1980s, the station was demolished and re-built, with staggered platforms on each side of the bridge on Station Road.
Metro Flow
During the 2020
Budget, the
Government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is ...
announced the £103million ''Metro Flow'' scheme. Between September 2022 and December 2022, a full closure of the line between Pelaw and South Shields took place. Three sections of single line were converted to dual line, between
Pelaw and Hebburn (), Hebburn and
Jarrow () and Jarrow and
Bede (. The project also saw a previously freight-only line electrified and redesigned to operate using a similar system to the existing shared line between Pelaw and
Sunderland.
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 Hebburn. 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 (including
contactless payment
Contactless payment systems are credit cards and debit cards, key fobs, smart cards, or other devices, including smartphones and other mobile devices, that use radio-frequency identification (RFID) or near-field communication (NFC, e.g. Samsung ...
), notes and coins.
The station is also fitted with smartcard validators, which feature at all stations across the network.
There is a free car park available at the station, with 80 spaces, plus four accessible spaces, as well as a taxi rank. There is also the provision for cycle parking, with five cycle pods available for use.
Services
, the station is served by up to five trains per hour on weekdays and Saturday, and up to four trains per hour during the evening and on Sunday.
Rolling stock used:
Class 599 ''Metrocar''
References
External links
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Timetable and station informationfor Hebburn
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1872 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1872
1984 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1984
Tyne and Wear Metro Yellow line stations
Transport in Tyne and Wear
Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations
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